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To: Zeev Hed who wrote (60840)	11/10/2000 9:28:22 PM
From: multicollinearity	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93625

Zeev: <if memory serve (and I was an outside observer from far away at the time), Nixon did not concede until well into December of 1960.> Zeev, This was not the case. Below is a quote from an op-ed in today's New York Times. Multico "President John F. Kennedy would sometimes write the number 118,574 on a slip of paper and put it in his pocket. That was his margin of victory in the popular vote over Vice President Richard M. Nixon in the 1960 election. The vote was close, the mandate thin, the president cautious. In fact, there were a lot of people, Nixon among them, who thought the vote had been even closer than that. Some thought the election had been stolen, that Democrats in at least two states, Illinois and Texas, had produced the necessary number of Kennedy votes from thin air and the names on tombstones. When Kennedy and Nixon met for the first time after the votes were counted, on Nov. 14, Kennedy said, "Well, it's hard to tell who won the election at this point." Nixon nodded. He knew the real reason Kennedy had come to him — they met in a villa at the Key Biscayne Hotel where the Nixons were vacationing — was to try to persuade him not to fight the vote count in court or in the press. But Kennedy did not have to try. Nixon immediately told Kennedy he would not challenge the official results, and they began a meaningless conversation about the prospect of Republicans serving in the new Democratic administration."