On Vietnam and Not Seeking Reelection

Portrait of Lyndon B. Johnson

Lyndon Baines Johnson  ·  March 31, 1968

Portrait of Lyndon B. Johnson

Occasion. Oval Office television, March 31, 1968, three months after Tet. Eugene McCarthy nearly won New Hampshire; Robert Kennedy entered the race two weeks earlier. The audience does not know until the last lines that he will not run. He does not say the war is lost.

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