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Facing a country sharply divided over the Vietnam War, President Lyndon B. Johnson announces in a national television and radio broadcast on March 31, 1968, that he will not seek reelection to the presidency.

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  • Johnson Will Not Seek Reelection
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    Facing a country sharply divided over the Vietnam War, President Lyndon B. Johnson announces in a national television and radio broadcast on March 31, 1968, that he will not seek reelection to the presidency.

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    In reaction to violence that broke out at the 1968 Democratic National Convention, Chicago Mayor Richard Daley defends his city's police, blaming instead the anti-Vietnam War demonstrators for the clash.

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  • Robert F. Kennedy Announces Run for Presidency
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    On March 16, 1968, from the On March 16, 1968, from the Caucus Room of the Old Senate Office Building the same place his late brother declared his candidacy for president eight years earlier Sen. Robert F. Kennedy announces his intention to run for the Democratic presidential nomination.

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    For his second run for the presidency, Nixon hired filmmaker Eugene Jones to produce ads that captured the turbulence and unrest in the nation at the time. Convention was one in a series -- mimicking the uneasy mood and tension in the US, suggesting that Nixon was the only man to bring the country together again.

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    Spiro who? In 1968, Nixon chose the governor of Maryland as his Vice President running mate.

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  • Violence Batters 1968 Democratic Convention
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    The madness of the 1968 Demoratic National Convention, set to "My Generation" by The Who.

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    Explore the violence that unfolded at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago in this Ask Steve video. Steve Gillon explains how three different groups of people came together, and how attempts at peace were met with violence.

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    Host David Eisenbach explains the history of the long election process a candidate must go through to become President of the United States.

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    Over 25 years, the Vietnam conflict escalated from an attempt to stop the spread of communism into a full-scale war.

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