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The Democratic Party had already begun to split between anti-war "doves" and pro-war "hawks," and the Republican Party gained dozens of seats in Congress. As opposition grew in 1967, anti-war Democrats led by Allard Lowenstein and Curtis Gans formed the Dump Johnson movement , which sought to challenge the President's re-election.
The 1968 Democratic National Convention was held August 26–29 at the International Amphitheatre in Chicago, Illinois, United States. 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]
The American Independent Party candidate, former Alabama governor George Wallace, performed rather well in California despite being thousands of miles away from his base in the Deep South. Although Nixon was born and raised in California, he had moved to New York , following his failed 1962 gubernatorial bid , and thus identified New York as ...
Democrats are increasingly anxious about their party’s internal divisions over the Israel-Hamas war, writes Julian Zelizer. Opinion: 1968 protests should serve as a warning to today’s ...
The incumbent in 1968, Lyndon B. Johnson. His second term expired at noon on January 20, 1969. In the 1964 U.S. presidential election, incumbent Democratic President Lyndon B. Johnson won the largest popular vote landslide in U.S. presidential election history over Republican Senator Barry Goldwater.
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.
Four days before the Democratic National Convention opens in Chicago, the party's proposed platform names the wrong candidate for president. The Democratic platform — essentially a document ...
(1948 States' Rights Democratic platform) [11] 11 [1972] Eagleton withdrew his candidacy after the convention and was replaced by Sargent Shriver of Maryland . 12 [2016] Debbie Wasserman Schultz of Florida was intended to be the Temporary Chair, but was substituted for Stephanie Rawlings-Blake by the Democratic National Committee in the wake of ...