Wasn’t that the story with Richard Nixon vs John Kennedy?
That is what I’ve always heard. Nixon and most others felt that he actually won, but Kennedy’s people spread the false rumor that their man had won. There was so much wild celebration of that lie, that Nixon decided it would ‘divide the country too much’ to formally contest this presumption.
I’m probably getting details wrong, but that was the basic outcome and for those Old World, gentlemanly reasons.
It wasn't a presumption. The Illinois Democrats supposedly manufactured enough votes to put Kennedy over thetop.
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