Nixon was not inaugurated yet. Loves to lie but has a poor memory.
"Nixon was not inaugurated yet. Loves to lie but has a poor memory."
It seems it is a common error to count the election year as the first year of a President's term even though the actual term begins in January of the following year. I still remember how furious I used to get when McGovern would be on TV ranting about how Nixon could have ended the war "four years ago" even though Nixon at the time had only been President for about three years. I used to wonder how McGovern could undermine his own credibility this way for no apparent reason but I finally realized that he, like most others, was simply too careless to note the error.