Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
On March 16, 1968, four days after the New Hampshire primary, Robert F. Kennedy announced his candidacy. [4] On March 31, 1968, President Lyndon Johnson announced that he would not seek reelection. [5] Vice President Hubert Humphrey went on to be nominated after Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated in June. [6]
Kennedy began to plan for a nationwide campaign, [3] and in the informal New Hampshire vice-presidential primary, Kennedy defeated Hubert H. Humphrey in a landslide. [ 4 ] In July 1964, Johnson issued an official statement ruling out any cabinet member for the vice presidency. [ 5 ]
Incumbent president Lyndon B. Johnson had been the early frontrunner for the Democratic Party's nomination but withdrew from the race after only narrowly winning the New Hampshire primary. Humphrey, Eugene McCarthy, and Robert F. Kennedy emerged as the three major candidates in the Democratic primaries until Kennedy was assassinated. His death ...
Despite Johnson's growing unpopularity, conventional wisdom held that it would be impossible to deny re-nomination to a sitting president. Johnson won a narrow victory in the New Hampshire presidential primary on March 12, against McCarthy 49–42%, [15] but this close second-place result dramatically boosted McCarthy's standing in the race ...
President Lyndon Johnson speaks to the nation from the Oval Office on March 31, 1968, as he bows out of the race amid the divisiveness of the Vietnam War.
Biden also lost the New Hampshire primary on his way to the White House in 2020. ... in 1968, then-President Lyndon B. Johnson decided to end his campaign for reelection after only barely winning ...
The other president to be forced out of the running for re-election by New Hampshire voters was Lyndon Johnson, who, as a write-in candidate, managed only a 49–42 percent victory over Eugene McCarthy in 1968, and won fewer delegates than McCarthy, and consequently withdrew from the race.
The Robert F. Kennedy presidential campaign began on March 16, 1968, when Kennedy, a United States Senator from New York, mounted an unlikely challenge to incumbent Democratic United States President Lyndon B. Johnson. Following an upset in the New Hampshire primary, Johnson announced on March 31 that he would not seek re-election to a second ...