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Because his ideas about how to end the war and not cause anymore casualties were rejected by the north Vietnamese such as the San Antonio formula and others were rejected by Johnson such as handing over control to the democratic republic of Vietnam army which didn't go down well so he resigned then Johnson didn't run again either

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