The first presidential election for voters under 21 was in 1972. Democrat George McGovern expected to win them by huge margins. Richard Nixon had other plans.

“Of course I knew Jerry Voorhis wasn’t a communist,” Richard Nixon said. The young congressman was musing over his recent campaign with his defeated opponent’s adviser over lunch in 1947.

Richard Nixon (top row, far right) and John F. Kennedy (top row, second from right) as young congressmen. * * * One could say Nixon lost the presidency because of a limousine door.