Question: What office did kennedy run for in 1968?
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His February, 1968 editorial (“Wanted: Some Hope for the Future”) published in "motive", urging Robert F. Kennedy to run for President, received wide comment, and is considered to be one of the factors in Senator Kennedy's decision to run for President, as recorded by Michael Novak in his historical reminiscences of that early phase of the Kennedy campaign.
The editorial led to Kennedy’s invitation to Stiles to join the Kennedy-for-President Campaign staff.
He did so in 1968, stimulating support for Kennedy in the Indiana, Oregon and California primaries.
He was with Senator Ted Kennedy in San Francisco on the night of the Robert F. Kennedy assassination in Los Angeles on June 5, 1968, and facilitated expediting the Senator's flight to be with the Kennedy family in Los Angeles.
In 1969, at the request of the Kennedy family, he moved to Washington, DC, to launch and lead the RFK Fellows Program for the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Center for Human Rights 
In 1968, President Johnson began to run for reelection.
In January 1968, faced with what was widely considered an unrealistic race against an incumbent President, Senator Kennedy stated he would not seek the presidency.
After the Tet Offensive in Vietnam, in early February 1968, Kennedy received a letter from writer Pete Hamill, that said that poor people kept pictures of President Kennedy on their walls and that Robert Kennedy had an "obligation of staying true to whatever it was that put those pictures on those walls".
Kennedy traveled to Delano, California, to meet with civil rights activist César Chávez who was on a twenty-five day hunger strike showing his commitment to nonviolence.
It was at his visit in California where Kennedy decided he would challenge Johnson for the presidency, telling his former DOJ press secretary Edwin Guthman, that his first step was to get little-known Senator Eugene McCarthy of Minnesota to withdraw from the presidential race.
The weekend before the New Hampshire primary, Kennedy announced to several aides that he would attempt to persuade McCarthy to concede from the race to avoid splitting the antiwar vote, but with the advice from South Dakota Senator George McGovern, he urged Kennedy to wait until after the primary to announce his candidacy.
Johnson won a narrow victory in the New Hampshire primary on March 12, 1968, against McCarthy, which boosted McCarthy's standing in the race.
After much speculation and reports leaking out about his plans, and seeing in McCarthy's success that Johnson's hold on the job was not as strong as originally thought, Kennedy declared his candidacy on March 16, 1968, in the Caucus Room of the old Senate office building—the same room where his brother declared his own candidacy eight years earlier.
He stated, "I do not run for the Presidency merely to oppose any man, but to propose new policies.
I run because I am convinced that this country is on a perilous course and because I have such strong feelings about what must be done, and I feel that I'm obliged to do all I can.
"McCarthy supporters angrily denounced Kennedy as an opportunist, and thus the anti-war movement was split between McCarthy and Kennedy.
On March 31, 1968, Johnson stunned the nation by dropping out of the race.
Vice President Hubert Humphrey, long a champion of labor unions and civil rights, entered the race with the support of the party "establishment", including most members of Congress, mayors, governors and labor unions.
He entered the race too late to enter any primaries, but had the support of the president and many Democratic insiders.
Robert Kennedy, like his brother before him, planned to win the nomination through popular support in the primaries.
Kennedy stood on a platform of racial and economic justice, non-aggression in foreign policy, decentralization of power and social improvement.
A crucial element to his campaign was an engagement with the young, whom he identified as being the future of a reinvigorated American society based on partnership and equality.
Kennedy's policy objectives did not sit well with the business world, in which he was viewed as something of a fiscal liability, opposed as they were to the tax increases necessary to fund such programs of social improvement.
At one of his university speeches (Indiana University Medical School) he was asked, "Where are we going to get the money to pay for all these new programs you're proposing?"
Kennedy replied to the medical students, about to enter lucrative careers, "From you.
"It was this intense and frank mode of dialogue with which Kennedy was to continue to engage those whom he viewed as not being traditional allies of Democratic ideals or initiatives.
In a speech at the University of Alabama, he argued, "I believe that any who seek high office this year must go before all Americans: not just those who agree with them, but also those who disagree; recognizing that it is not just our supporters, not just those who vote for us, but all Americans, who we must lead in the difficult years ahead."
He aroused rabid animosity in some quarters, with J. Edgar Hoover's Deputy Clyde Tolson reported as saying, "I hope that someone shoots and kills the son of a bitch.
"It has been widely commented that Robert Kennedy's campaign for the American presidency outstripped, in its vision of social improvement, that of President Kennedy; Robert Kennedy's bid for the presidency saw not only a continuation of the programs he and his brother had undertaken during the President's term in office, but also an extension of these programs through what Robert Kennedy viewed as an honest questioning of the historic progress that had been made by President Johnson.
Kennedy openly challenged young people who supported the war while benefiting from draft deferments, visited numerous small towns, and made himself available to the masses by participating in long motorcades and street-corner stump speeches (often in troubled inner-cities).
Kennedy made urban poverty a chief concern of his campaign, which in part led to enormous crowds that would attend his events in poor urban areas or rural parts of Appalachia.
On April 4, 1968, Kennedy learned of the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. and gave a heartfelt impromptu speech in Indianapolis's inner city, in which Kennedy called for a reconciliation between the races.
Riots broke out in 60 cities in the wake of King's death, but not in Indianapolis, a fact many attribute to the effect of this speech.
Kennedy finally won the Indiana Democratic primary on May 7 and the Nebraska primary on May 14, but lost the Oregon primary on May 28.
If he could defeat McCarthy in the California primary, the leadership of the campaign thought, he would knock McCarthy out of the race and set up a one-on-one against Hubert Humphrey (whom he bested in the primary held on the same day as the California primary in Humphrey's birth state, South Dakota) at the Chicago national convention in August. 
Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr. Was president in "Fatherland", a novel by Robert Harris later made into a HBO movie.
In the novel, Nazi Germany won World War II resulting in a far different world by April 1964.
With tensions easing between the world's two major superpowers, a 75-year-old Adolf Hitler welcomes President Kennedy (who was elected in 1960) to a Berlin summit in the interest of fostering détente.
Kennedy was believed by one of the main characters to be a shoo-in for re-election until the truth of the death camps is uncovered on the day of the summit.
President Kennedy was played by Jan Kohout in the movie.
In the novel "K is for Killing" by Daniel Easterman, he becomes the 34th President in 1940 following the assassination of President D. C. Stephenson.
Stephenson was elected Vice President under Charles Lindbergh in 1932, and became President upon arranging for Lindbergh's assassination to prevent him from discovering a secret nuclear weapon collaboration plan with Nazi Germany.
In the novel, Kennedy is Speaker of the House and becomes President when Stephenson is killed by his own wife, but blames it on German agents and uses it as a pretext to sever all ties with Germany.
Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr.
In "Franz Ferdinand Lives!
A World Without World War I" (2014) by Richard Ned Lebow in which neither World War I nor World War II took place, Kennedy was elected President in 1960 and served two terms.
His First Lady was the former model, Broadway actress and "Winner Take All" hostess Athalia Fetter.
She became a prominent civil rights activist, which resulted in a rapid decline in her husband's popularity.
Although they were portrayed as a fairy tale couple, they often had extremely heated arguments in the White House.
JPK's Attorney General was his younger brother John F. Kennedy.
During an argument with the First Lady, JPK once remarked that he wished that he had married Jack's wife Jacqueline Kennedy as he was certain that she would have been a vacuous First Lady who would remain out of politics.
John F. Kennedy  Still alive in the 1990s in Brad Ferguson's "The World Next Door" and still legally the President, since the US and the whole world were completely devastated in 1962 when the Cuban Missile Crisis turned into all-out nuclear war and no further elections were ever held.
Kennedy is hated and detested by the remnants of the American population, starting to revive by their own efforts in small pockets here and there.
Generally considered "The man who destroyed the country", Kennedy's exact whereabouts are unknown, and he is rumored to be "hiding out in a bunker somewhere".
In James P. Hogan's "The Proteus Operation", Kennedy is elected President in 1972, in an alternate history where Nazi Germany won World War II and the German-Japanese Axis rules all the world except for North America and Australia.
President Kennedy vows "not to give up a single inch of free soil" and engages in an increasingly tense Cold War with the Nazis and Imperial Japanese, facing the bleak possibility of either defeat in the coming hot war or the destruction of the world in a nuclear holocaust.
In 1974, Kennedy sponsors a secret time travel project to send a special commando unit back to 1939, whose intervention eventually creates our own history.
Herbert B. Douglas' story "The Mother of all Murder Trials" is an alternate history in which Jacqueline Bouvier married John G. W. Husted, Jr. rather than John Kennedy.
Kennedy then married Marilyn Monroe and was elected President in 1960 with her at his side.
In their first year, Monroe was a highly successful and glamorous First Lady, but afterwards their marriage went under increasing strain, bitter quarrels and mutual (justified) accusations of infidelity.
Late on the night of September 30, 1962, President Kennedy discovered his wife in bed with his brother Robert F. Kennedy, pulled a gun and killed both of them – being found by White House aides bitterly crying with the smoking gun still in his hand.
A week later Congress unanimously voted to impeach Kennedy and remove him from office, whereupon he was charged with murder.
After dismissing a lawyer who tried to plead "temporary insanity", Kennedy pleaded guilty and specifically asked the court to sentence him to death as "the least which I deserve", refused to appeal the sentence and went to the electric chair after the Pope came to America to personally give him absolution.
His last words were "God bless America – I am ready to do my last duty for my country".
While initially considered a monster, Kennedy's sincere and obvious penitence won him considerable public sympathy and he was widely regarded as "a tragic hero".
The enormous attention to this sensational murder case relegated to the back pages the news of Soviet missiles being placed in Cuba.
President Johnson, who took office on October 1962, contented himself with warning the Soviets that any use of these missiles would be "answered ten-fold" by American missiles placed in Turkey.
In 1965 Johnson – concluding that there was no chance left to topple the Cuba regime – reached a secret deal with Fidel Castro, for removal of US sanctions in return for a Cuban promise not to "export the revolution".
This caused an open breach between Castro and Che Guevara, who was arrested in Havana and executed on treason charges.
In one of the alternate realities featured in "The Coming of the Quantum Cats" by Frederik Pohl, Kennedy was a Senator from Massachusetts in 1986 who was married to a woman named Marilyn.
At the time, Nancy Reagan was President of the United States.
She was considered a strong and assertive President, who successfully guided her version of the United States through the major crisis of an invasion from a different reality.
Her husband Ronald, known as the First Gentleman, was mostly disregarded.
In Stephen Baxter's "Voyage", the assassin's bullets went differently on 22 November 1963, and it was Jacqueline Kennedy who was killed, while her husband John Kennedy survived - though crippled and incapacitated, which forced him to resign and made Lyndon B. Johnson the new President.
As in our history, Richard Nixon was elected in 1968 and on 20 July 1969 conducted a widely broadcast phone call with astronauts Neil Armstrong and Joe Muldoon who were walking on the moon.
However, in this timeline the call was joined by former President Kennedy, who there and then committed the United States to send a manned mission to Mars - which Nixon eventually took up and started implementing in practice.
The Mars flight did eventually take off in 1980, from what was called on this timeline the Jacqueline B. Kennedy Space Center.
In the alternate history "Dark Future" novel series by Kim Newman, Kennedy was defeated by Richard Nixon in the 1960 election after it was discovered that he was having an affair with Marilyn Monroe.
In the short story "The Impeachment of Adlai Stevenson" by David Gerrold included in the anthology "Alternate Presidents", the title character defeated Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1952 after Eisenhower made the mistake of choosing Joseph McCarthy as his running mate instead of Richard Nixon.
However, Stevenson proved to be an extremely unpopular president, leading to his impeachment and subsequent resignation in August 1958.
Stevenson was succeeded by Kennedy, his untested 41-year-old vice-president who becomes the 35th President.
Although the story ends immediately after Stevenson has decided to resign, it is heavily implied that Nixon, already the front runner for the next Republican nomination, will defeat Kennedy in the 1960 election.
This is due to the public's antipathy towards the Democrats and the fact that Kennedy is a much derided figure due to his recent marriage to the Hollywood actress Marilyn Monroe, referred to derisively as "the new Monroe Doctrine."
In the short story "The Kennedy Enterprise" by David Gerrold contained in the anthology "Alternate Kennedys", Kennedy was raised in Hollywood and eventually decided to become an actor.
Although he was cast in numerous films in the 1940s and the 1950s, roles began to dry up by the time that he had reached his mid 40s.
However, in 1966, he was cast in what would become his best known role, namely Captain Jack Logan of the U.S.S.
"Enterprise" (NCC-1701) in the hugely popular science fiction television series "".
In the alternate history novel "The Two Georges" by Harry Turtledove and Richard Dreyfuss, Kennedy was a publisher in Boston, Massachusetts in 1995.
Although born and raised in the North American Union, Kennedy had a strong sense of his Irish heritage and hated the British Empire for its past and continued transgressions against Ireland from the Great Famine (1845–1852) to the abject poverty and brutal exploitation of Irish miners in the present.
He adopted a separatist stance, which he expressed through the magazine "Common Sense", frequently skirting the edge of legality.
He was suspected of being a member of the terrorist organisation, the Sons of Liberty.
When the Thomas Gainsborough painting "The Two Georges" was stolen from the Governor-General's mansion in New Liverpool in June 1995, Royal American Mounted Police officers Thomas Bushell and Samuel Stanley and the painting's custodian Dr. Kathleen Flannery followed suspected Sons member Joseph Killbride to Boston, they met with Kennedy, who proved combatative in dealing with Bushell and made very subtle and inappropriate advances towards Flannery.
His brother was a Catholic archbishop.
In the first parallel universe featured in "Sliders", the United States was a severely impoverished nation whereas Mexico was an industrial giant and a world power.
Americans emigrated across the Mexican border in droves.
Furthermore, the world was undergoing global cooling.
In this universe, the Twenty-second Amendment, which states that no person may be elected to the presidency more than twice, had seemingly never been ratified.
Consequently, Kennedy was elected to the nation's highest office in every election from 1960 to 1992.
At the time of Quinn Mallory's visit to this universe in September 1994, Kennedy was serving his ninth term as President.
He did not plan to run for re-election in 1996.
He was married to the former Hollywood actress Marilyn Monroe.
In a parallel universe featured in the "Sliders" Season Two episode "Time Again and World", Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas on November 22, 1963 by Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.
After the Rosenbergs were executed, the director of the FBI J. Edgar Hoover became the 36th President.
As a result of Hoover's rise to power, much of the United States Constitution was abridged and martial law was declared.
In the Second Gettysburg Address, President Hoover spoke out against the ills of civilisation, claiming that democracy was leading to godless amorality and the breakdown of the family unit.
Hoover remained president for 22 years until his death in 1985.
Martial law had effectively rendered the United States a police state by 1996.
In a parallel universe featured in the "Sliders" Season Two episode "Obsession", a young psychic from San Francisco predicted the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln on April 14, 1865 and thereby prevented his death.
Lincoln was so grateful and impressed that he created a cabinet post known as the Prime Oracle, whose job was to predict natural and man made disasters.
He and his successors were so successful that millions of American citizens came to trust and believe in psychic abilities.
Kennedy's own assassination was likewise prevented and he survived until May 1995, when he died at the age of 78 due to complications from Addison's disease.
Attendees at his funeral included his younger brother Robert F. Kennedy and Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.. By 1996, the President of the United States was little more than a figurehead for the country as not even the President could question the Prime Oracle's infinite wisdom.
In the "Elseworlds" comic book miniseries "", Kennedy lost the 1960 election to Richard Nixon, who was later assassinated in Dallas, Texas on November 22, 1963.
However, he was President by 1978.
During his presidency, he had divorced his first wife Jacqueline Kennedy and married Norma Jeane Baker, becoming the first U.S. President to divorce and remarry while in office.
In the film "", a 2004 mockumentary directed by Kevin Willmott which depicts a timeline in which the Confederacy won the American Civil War, completely annexed and absorbed the United States, and perpetuated slavery.
By 1960, when only 29 percent of voters approve of slavery, Roman Catholic Republican John F. Kennedy is elected CSA president over Democrat Richard Nixon.
However, foreign policy such as the Newfoundland Missile Crisis distracts him, and he is unable to implement his domestic agenda before being assassinated.
In the alternate history novel "The Sky People", Kennedy served two full terms as the 35th President from 1961 to 1969.
Although he was initially considered weak on anti-Communist matters, he was elected to a second term in 1964.
His successful handling of the Vietnam War, the Thailand Border Crisis of 1966-1967 and the Six-Day War silenced the majority of his critics.
The key US base on Mars was named after Kennedy.
In the alternate history novel "The Gladiator" by Harry Turtledove, Kennedy's decision to back down during the Cuban Missile Crisis in October 1962 was a signal to the world that the United States was not as serious about fighting the Cold War as it held itself out as being.
After the US withdraw its troops from the Vietnam War in 1968, communists and socialists formed popular fronts in the face of the United States' perceived weakness.
With the Soviet Union's support, these popular fronts were able to successfully topple Western Europe's capitalist and democratic governments and established People's Republics.
The United States was the last nation to fall.
By the end of the 20th Century, the entire world had turned to communism.
By the late 21st century, the United States was seen as harmless and was completely obedient to the Soviet Union.
In the parallel universe featured in "Fringe", the nonagenarian Kennedy was serving as the United States Ambassador to the United Nations in May 2009 but planned to resign his position in order to lead a new US government agency aimed at slowing ecological breakdown.
Patrick Bouvier Kennedy  Patrick Kennedy was elected in 2000 in the story "Prince Pat" by George Alec Effinger in the anthology "Alternate Kennedys", defeating the incumbent Republican, former Secretary of State James A. Baker.
In real life, Patrick Kennedy, son of President John F. Kennedy, was born August 7, 1963, and died two days later of infant respiratory distress syndrome.
This would have made him, at 37, the youngest President in history.
In style and plot, the story parallels the Shakespeare play "Henry V".
Robert F. Kennedy  The novel "A Disturbance of Fate" by Mitchell J. Freedman is premised on Robert Kennedy surviving Sirhan Sirhan's assassination attempt and going on to serve two successful terms as president with Ralph Yarborough as his vice president and eventual successor.
In one of the episodes of "What If?"
on the Discovery Channel, he won the Democratic nomination in 1968 with Revd Dr Martin Luther King, Jr. as his running mate.
Kennedy defeated Richard Nixon and George Wallace in the general election to become the 37th President but was shot to death in September 1969.
In the story "President-Elect" by Mark Aronson in the anthology "Alternate Kennedys", RFK survives his encounter with Sirhan Sirhan and adds a strong law and order theme to his campaign.
Pressured by incumbent Lyndon B. Johnson to more closely toe the party line (or more precisely, the LBJ line) or else risk having his election sabotaged, Kennedy bolts and becomes the Republican nominee with Richard Nixon as his running mate.
The Democrats nominate his brother Ted Kennedy to run with the incumbent Vice President Hubert Humphrey.
Kennedy/Nixon barely edges Kennedy/Humphrey, but before he can be inaugurated, Robert is killed when he accidentally drives off a bridge at Chappaquiddick, leaving Nixon to become the 37th President.
In the 1969 alternate history "If Israel Lost the War" by Richard Z. Chesnoff, Edward Klein and Robert Littell, Israel was defeated in the Six Day War, Sirhan Sirhan went home to share in his people's victory celebrations, and Robert Kennedy passed unscathed through the kitchen of The Ambassador Hotel and went on to be elected as the 37th President.
On entering office, Kennedy feels that the fall of Pro-Western Israel at the hands of the pro-Soviet Nasser's Egypt has dangerously tipped the global balance of forces, and he orders an escalation of the Vietnam War through a land invasion of North Vietnam.
However, American forces get bogged down far short of Hanoi, due to intensive Vietnamese guerrilla activity plus the direct mass intervention of Chinese "volunteers", similar to those who fought in the Korean War.
As a result, the President's popularity sharply plunges by 1969, when the book ends.
In the short story "Fellow Americans" by Eileen Gunn contained in the anthology "Alternate Presidents", Barry Goldwater defeated the early favourite and incumbent Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964 and went on to be re-elected in 1968.
During his term in office, President Goldwater ordered that nuclear weapons be deployed against North Vietnam during the Vietnam War.
In 1990, Kennedy, who had never seriously sought the Democratic presidential nomination, was serving as the Governor of New York and proceedings had been instituted against him for an alleged impropriety which he had committed while in his office.
While attending the opening ceremony of the 1990 New York World's Fair in the Tower of Diminished Expectations, Governor Kennedy was the subject of an attempted assassination but survived as he had been wearing a bullet proof vest.
During his convalescence, he informed his wife Ethel Kennedy that he intended to seek the Democratic nomination for the 1992 presidential election and run against the incumbent Republican President George H. W. Bush, who was increasingly unpopular due to his perceived poor handling of the economic recession.
However, as the would-be assassin had not been caught, Ethel was afraid that he would strike again and attempted to persuade her husband to abandon his plans to run for the presidency.
Her efforts proved unsuccessful.
Kennedy remained bitter that Johnson had chosen Hubert Humphrey as his running mate in the 1964 election as he was convinced that, with him on the ticket, Johnson would have defeated Goldwater and that he (Kennedy) would have gone on to be elected President himself in 1968.
Ted Kennedy  Mentioned in "The Simpsons" episode "Bart to the Future" and was president sometime before Lisa Simpson.
A list of US Presidents since the 1950s in Robert A. Heinlein's book "" (1984) concludes with "Eisenhower, Kennedy, Kennedy, Kennedy", presumably referring to both Robert Kennedy and Ted Kennedy.
This joke was used earlier in "A Boy and His Dog" (1976) when the main character lists the presidents in order: "Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Kennedy, Kennedy, Kennedy...".
This list was also mentioned as the USA presidents in The Number of the Beast for "Timeline 2" (the Future History timeline) as "Woodrow Wilson, Harding, Coolidge, Hoover, Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Kennedy, Kennedy, Kennedy, Kennedy, Kennedy, ..., Neemiah Scudder Interregnum".
Elected President in 1980 in the first edition of Jeffrey Archer's novel "Shall We Tell the President?".
He had narrowly managed to defeat Jimmy Carter on the fifth ballot at the Democratic National Convention.
He picked Arkansas Senator Dale Bumpers as his running mate and they defeated Illinois Governor James R. Thompson by a 147,000 votes in the popular vote and became the 40th President.
(In the revised edition, Florentyna Kane, from Archer's "Kane and Abel" and "The Prodigal Daughter" was the president.)
Rev.
Dr Martin Luther King, Jr.
In an episode of "What If?"
on the Discovery Channel, King was Vice President under Robert Kennedy and succeeded him as the 38th President in September 1969.
Major of his initiatives are détente and continue program of Great Society (but under a new name).
He was assassinated in 1971.
He was succeeded by Vice President George McGovern.
Wynton Kelly  In the German Tageschau for the Wende Gruppe Wiedervereinigungsfest, Kelly was President of the United States in the 1970s, during a crisis between the US and the USSR around the "Herald des Freien Westens", a communication satellite.
The secret services of both sides of the Iron Curtain claimed that the other side had stolen crucial parts of the satellite for military purposes.
Kelly gave a broadcast speech in which he warned the Soviet leaders to immediately deliver to stolen parts back to the US under threat of a nuclear attack.
In return General Bravonov, the Soviet leader, warned the US to return their parts of the satellite.
The broadcast speech can be viewed on YouTube under the tag "Wiedervereinigungsfest".  
Kennedy visited the British Mandate of Palestine in 1948 and wrote dispatches at the time for the "Boston Post" about his trip and the effect it had on him when he was twenty-two years old.
During his stay, he wrote that he grew to admire the Jewish inhabitants of the area.
As a Senator, he later became a strong supporter and advocate for Israel.
Kennedy was United States Attorney General from January 1961 until September 3, 1964, when he resigned to run for election to the United States Senate.
He took office as Senator from New York on January 3, 1965.
The run up to the 1968 presidential election saw the incumbent president, Lyndon B. Johnson, serving during a period of social unrest.
There were riots in the major cities despite Johnson's attempts to introduce anti-poverty and anti-discrimination legislation, and there was significant opposition to the ongoing military action in Vietnam.
The assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. on April 4, 1968 led to further riots across the US.
Kennedy entered the race for the Democratic Party's nomination for president on March 16, 1968—four days after Senator Eugene McCarthy received a large percentage of the vote in the New Hampshire primary against the incumbent President (42% to Johnson's 49%).
Two weeks later, a demoralized Johnson announced he was no longer seeking re-election.
One month later, Vice President Hubert Humphrey announced he would seek the presidency.
Humphrey did not participate in any primaries but he did obtain the support of many Democratic Party delegates.
Following the California primary, Kennedy was in second place with 393 delegates compared to Humphrey's 561. 
Kennedy first considered running for political office in 2000 when he considered running for United States Senator in New York.
After deciding not to run in that election, he again considered running in 2005 for Attorney General.
With the possibility of a matchup against his then brother-in-law Andrew Cuomo generating media interest, Kennedy again decided not to run, despite being considered the frontrunner if he ran.
In a January 2007 interview in "", Kennedy said he would consider running for the potentially open seat of then-United States Senator Hillary Clinton of New York if she were to win the 2008 Presidential election.
RFK Jr.'s father was elected to that seat in 1964 and held it for more than three years.
Clinton did not win the election and Kennedy announced on December 2, 2008 that he would not run, feeling it would take too much time away from his family