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The 1968 presidential campaign of Hubert Humphrey began when Hubert Humphrey, the 38th and incumbent Vice President of the United States, decided to seek the Democratic Party nomination for President of the United States on April 27, 1968, after incumbent President Lyndon B. Johnson withdrew his bid for reelection to a second full term on March 31, 1968, and endorsed him as his successor.
On March 31, 1968, at the end of a televised address on Vietnam, he shocked the nation by announcing that he would not seek re-election. By withdrawing, he could avoid the stigma of defeat and could keep control of the party machinery to support Vice President Hubert Humphrey. As the year developed, it also became clear that Johnson believed he ...
Launch of the Hubert Humphrey 1968 presidential campaign on April 27, 1968. Hubert Humphrey officially became the Democratic presidential nominee on August 29, 1968. Richard Nixon elected the 37th president on November 5, 1968. Johnson retired when Nixon was inaugurated on January 20, 1969.
Hubert Horatio Humphrey Jr. (May 27, 1911 – January 13, 1978) was an American politician and statesman who served as the 38th vice president of the United States from 1965 to 1969.
That November, Humphrey ran close to Richard Nixon, a Republican and the ultimate winner, but the independent candidate George Wallace, a former Democrat, won multiple Southern states with a ...
While political insiders accepted Humphrey’s steady march to the nomination as following long-established rules, supporters of Sen. McCarthy, who solely commanded the antiwar base after Kennedy ...
In 1968, former President Lyndon Johnson chose not to run for reelection and was replaced at the top of the ticket by Vice President Hubert Humphrey. Similarly, President Joe Biden dropped out and ...
Earlier that year incumbent President Lyndon B. Johnson had announced he would not seek reelection, thus making the purpose of the convention to select a new presidential nominee for the Democratic Party. [1] Vice President Hubert Humphrey and Senator Edmund Muskie of Maine were nominated for president and vice president, respectively.