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The incumbent in 1968, Lyndon B. Johnson. His second term expired at noon on January 20, 1969. In the election of 1964, incumbent Democratic U.S. president Lyndon B. Johnson won the largest popular vote landslide in U.S. presidential election history over Republican U.S. Senator Barry Goldwater.
On March 31, 1968, then-incumbent U.S. president Lyndon B. Johnson made a surprise announcement during a televised address to the nation that began around 9 p.m., [1] declaring that he would not seek re–election for another term and was withdrawing from the 1968 United States presidential election.
President Johnson's remarks are composed of addressing the continued violence and divisiveness within the US and recounting his announcement to not run for re-election. [143] President Johnson issues Executive Order 11414, imposing an adjustment on the monthly pay basic for service members. [144]
His preferred successor, Vice President Hubert Humphrey, won the Democratic nomination but was narrowly defeated by Nixon in the 1968 presidential election. Though he left office with low approval ratings, polls of historians and political scientists tend to have Johnson ranked as an above-average president.
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As he had served less than two years of President Kennedy's term, Johnson was constitutionally eligible for election to a second full term in the 1968 presidential election. [314] [315] Despite Johnson's growing unpopularity, conventional wisdom held that it would be impossible to deny re-nomination to a sitting president. [316]
How the assassination attempt affects Trump’s chances of reelection remains to be seen, but it’s not the first time that violence has roiled a major presidential election year. In 1968, two ...
The 1968 United States elections were held on November 5, and elected members of the 91st United States Congress. The election took place during the Vietnam War , in the same year as the Tet Offensive , the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. , the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy , and the protests of 1968 .