Withdrawal of Lyndon B. Johnson from the 1968 United States presidential election

On March 31, 1968,  U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson made a surprise announcement during a televised address to the nation. The incumbent announced that he would not run for re-election for another term and that he was ending his campaign in the 1968 United States presidential election. 

Johnson said, "I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as your president."

Johnson's decision allowed Vice President Hubert Humphrey to become the Democratic Party's nominee. The 1968 Democratic National Convention, which was held in Chicago, had large protests and much fighting between the demonstrators and the police. Humphrey would go on to lose the election to former Vice President Richard Nixon.

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