People have been talking for years about the Nixon sweating thing but in the end it was the Democrat machine getting dead people to vote in Texas and Illinois that won the election for JKK, not TV.
And Nixon declined to request a recount in those states, saying he wanted to spare the country an interruption in the continuity of the presidency, He also probably thought that if the Demonrats could commit fraud in the original vote count they could do the same in a recount.