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.

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“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.

A post shows Nixon speaking to Apollo 11 astronauts while they're on the moon with 'Earthrise', a photo taken during Apollo 8, on the wall behind him.

Cynthia Nixon made her very first TV appearance pretending to be a young horse riding champion on To Tell the Truth in 1974.Her mother worked on the show, leading to her appearance at 8 years old.

Nixon: In any event, looking at it as you must in terms of the future, because you have the great fortune of being young, I remember I was two years older than you when I went to the House.

One photo shows the Sept. 26, 1960, debate between then-Vice President Richard Nixon and then-Sen. John F. Kennedy from behind the cameras and lights used in the first-ever televised clash. Both ...

From left, son-in-law David Eisenhower, Julie Nixon-Eisenhower, Richard Nixon, Pat Nixon (1912 - 1993), Tricia Nixon and her husband Edward Cox, August 1974. (Photo by Keystone/Hulton Archive ...

From left, son-in-law David Eisenhower, Julie Nixon-Eisenhower, Richard Nixon, Pat Nixon (1912 - 1993), Tricia Nixon and her husband Edward Cox, August 1974. (Photo by Keystone/Hulton Archive ...