More than 50 years ago, President Lyndon B. Johnson shocked Americans by announcing that he would not seek a second full term as president.
President Lyndon B. Johnson works on a speech in the White House Cabinet Room on March 30, 1968. He announced the next day that he would not seek or accept the Democratic nomination for reelection. In March 1968, President Lyndon B. Johnson was nearly 40 minutes into a speech on the Vietnam War when he closed with a stunning announcement: He would not seek another term.
from within his own party, and a significant portion of the public disapproved of his policies in Vietnam. During the 1964 Democratic National Convention where he would receive his party’s nomination, Johnson told one of his aides he wanted to withdraw. In a reference to former president Woodrow Wilson’s 1919“Now, there are younger men and better-prepared men and better-trained men and Harvard-educated men, and I know my own limitations,” Johnson told his aide. “I just don’t believe that I have the physical and mental strength to carry them.
“He had committed to this policy of escalation in Vietnam several years before and had literally put the blood of Americans into the soil of Southeast Asia,” Germany said. Until that moment, many Americans expected Johnson to continue seeking a second term. After he withdrew, his vice president, Hubert Humphrey, announced his candidacy and
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