Posted on Mar 31, 2020
President Johnson announces he will not run for re election 1968
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On March 31, 1968, President Lyndon B. Johnson announced in an address to the nation that he would not seek re-election.
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Vietnam War
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I watched LBJ make that announcement on television. The country was torn apart
with demonstrations and riots in the streets. He was in for a tough election campaign
had he decided to go for a second four year term in the White House. There is no doubt
LBJ's presidency was destroyed by political decisions he made on the Vietnam war.
During the 1964 presidential campaign LBJ ran as the peace candidate while calling his
republican opponent Barry Goldwater a war candidate.
with demonstrations and riots in the streets. He was in for a tough election campaign
had he decided to go for a second four year term in the White House. There is no doubt
LBJ's presidency was destroyed by political decisions he made on the Vietnam war.
During the 1964 presidential campaign LBJ ran as the peace candidate while calling his
republican opponent Barry Goldwater a war candidate.
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SPC Woody Bullard
PO3 Bob McCord - I agree that things continued going on a downward
spiral with Richard Nixon in the White House. The politicians started looking for a way
to get the U.S. military out of Vietnam as they were feeling the political pressure going
against them in this country. There was the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy right after he had won the democratic vote in California and was on his way to be the democrat party candidate for POTUS. The murder of Kennedy changed political history in 1968.
spiral with Richard Nixon in the White House. The politicians started looking for a way
to get the U.S. military out of Vietnam as they were feeling the political pressure going
against them in this country. There was the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy right after he had won the democratic vote in California and was on his way to be the democrat party candidate for POTUS. The murder of Kennedy changed political history in 1968.
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SPC Woody Bullard
PO3 Bob McCord - I agree. President John F. Kennedy did send some U.S. military forces to South Vietnam such as the Army Special Forces Green Berets to assist and train the South Vietnamese army with weapons supplied to them by the U.S. . America's involvement in Vietnam may have went in a much different direction had JFK not been assassinated in Dallas, Texas on November 22, 1963. We will never know if JFK would have built up the U.S. military presence in Vietnam the way LBJ did and Nixon continued.
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