"I bet those must have been very heady days," said Schlesinger. [88] However, anti-war protesters heckled him repeatedly on the campaign trail. Wallace was victorious in 578 counties (18.47%), all of which (with one exception of Pemiscot County, Missouri) were located in the South. brebaby98 05/24/2017 History High School +5 pts. EUGENE MCCARTHY: “My decision to challenge the President's position and the administration's position has been strengthened by recent announcements out of the administration. 48 (November 1968), p. 3218. "You won't have Nixon to kick around anymore, because, ladies and gentlemen, this is my last news conference." [86][2], The election was a seismic event in the long-term realignment in Democratic Party support, especially in the South. "[85] By month's end, many in the Nixon campaign believed his election was guaranteed, beginning to prepare for the transition period, despite Nixon's warning that "the one thing that can beat us now is overconfidence. Referring to Brooke as "one of my top advisers," he accompanied campaign stops in Chicago and San Francisco, a move critics described as an attempt to further gain favor within the African American community. Nixon's election began a resurgence of the Republican Party who went on to have great influence during the latter part of the century. 48 (November 1968), p. 3218. Nixon told campaign aide and his future White House Chief of Staff H. R. Haldeman to put a "monkey wrench" into an early end to the war. [80] In a visit to Chicago shortly after the Democratic convention, Nixon received a large welcome and ticker tape parade, with crowds estimated at several hundred thousand.
Leaving the race would allow him to pose as a peacemaker. Johnson wanted to seek another four-year term as president.
They almost did. Candidates for the Vice-Presidential nomination: As of the 2020 presidential election, this was the last time two siblings (Nelson and Winthrop Rockefeller) ran against each other in a Presidential primary. Senator Kennedy has been shot, possibly shot in the head. The gunman, Sirhan Sirhan, did not work at the hotel, and he did not blame Kennedy for the Palestinians' problems, but for his support for Israel. Kennedy died after 25 hours, not a few hours. "[75] He then traveled to Michigan, Ohio and Pennsylvania before returning to New York, meeting with Governor Rockefeller. The Union decided to back Nixon over Wallace, labeling the third party candidate's beliefs as "Populist". Nixon's victory came with a margin of less than three percent in California, Illinois, and Ohio; had Humphrey carried those three, Nixon would have lost the election. [35] However, Johnson's January 27, 1968 phone conversion with Daley also revealed that he and the Chicago Mayor were also secretly feeding Robert Kennedy's ego so he would stay in the race, even making him convinced that the Democratic Party was undergoing a "revolution,"[20] and help him at the Convention, possibly earning him a spot as vice president.[20].
Buchanan said, "I thought we had lost. ROBERT KENNEDY: "What we need in the United States is not division. About a month before the election, Humphrey said the United States would halt bombing in North Vietnam. These victories, along with pledged delegate support from states not holding primaries, secured Nixon the nomination on the first ballot of the Republican National Convention, where he named Governor Spiro Agnew of Maryland as his running mate. In 1997, Chennault admitted that "I was constantly in touch with Nixon and Mitchell. The journalist Richard Reeves and historian Michael Beschloss have both written that Humphrey was the likely nominee, and future Democratic National Committee chairman Larry O'Brien wrote in his memoirs that Kennedy's chances of winning the nomination had been slim, even after his win in California. Part two (page 1)", "Despite Lead, Nixon Lacking Commitments", Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Commission on Marihuana and Drug Abuse, Presidential Recordings and Materials Preservation Act, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Richard_Nixon_1968_presidential_campaign&oldid=977937427, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 11 September 2020, at 21:45. The report said the riots in Chicago were a result of the actions of the police themselves. Many voters, however, saw little difference between their positions on major issues. [13] Labor unions also undertook a major effort to win back union members who were supporting Wallace, with substantial success.