Senator Eugene McCarthy did so well in the early primaries that Robert Kennedy jumped into the race and Johnson gave up.
Lyndon Johnson was President so his employer was the U.S. Government
John F. Kennedy preceded Lyndon Johnson as President of the USA.Lyndon Johnson was elected as John F. Kennedy's Vice President. So technically, Lyndon B. Johnson was president before Lyndon B. Johnson was elected as president.
Because Lyndon Johnson was to big for the Resolute Desk, so he decided to use his own Desk, The Johnson Desk.
Chose not to run for reelection.
Eugene McCarthy, junior senator from Minnesota was the first active anti-war candidate. He was so successful in the early primaries that the incumbent president, Lyndon Johnson, dropped out of the race and Sen. Robert Kennedy from NY became another anti-war candidate, more or less.
We will never know, besides they have both died, so it is not important anymore.
Chose not to run for reelection.
Bobby Kennedy , who was mostly against the Vietnamese War , never did like Lyndon Johnson and had planned to run in 1972, decided to jump in against Johnson in 1968 after unknown Senator Eugene McCarthy did so well against Johnson in New Hampshire.
They organized a plan to take out JFK which worked. They really had nothing to do with the blacks. But the reason they took out jfk because they sought him as a threat to them and lyndon was vp. so if jk got killed lyndon Johnson could run as president.
so that we can honor all the Americans who fought abd died in the military sevice
chose not to run for reelection. (apex)