Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20170103:02:48:00
He didn't want to run. he bowed out and his vice president became the nominee that year to succeed him. heading into the 1968 election, things didn't look great for the democrats. the party was not at all unified behind its candidate, vice president hubert humphrey. and after the civil rights legislation, southern democrats peeled off t vote for produced segregationist george wallace. not to mention the country was torn up or the vietnam war, and if you were against the war like most americans were at the time, you were maybe not excited to vote for lbj's vice president to be his democratic su...
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