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President Lyndon Johnson tells a nationwide audience that he would not seek nor accept "the nomination of my party for another term as your president,"

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President Lyndon Johnson tells a nationwide audience that he would not seek nor accept "the nomination of my party for another term as your president," March 30, 1968, from his White House office.

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Why Lyndon Johnson Dropped Out

| Mar. 24, 2018

Vietnam '67

A half-century has passed since President Lyndon B. Johnson stunned Americans by announcing, in a televised address on March 31, 1968, that he was drastically reducing the bombing of North Vietnam, appealing to the Hanoi government for negotiations and, most incredible of all, withdrawing from the presidential election that fall. One imagines the stupefied reaction in living rooms all across the country: "Did he just say what I think he said?"...

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