..."I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as your President" - Lyndon B. Johnson, March 31, 1968
The 36th President of the United States was Lyndon B. Johnson did not run for President in 1968. Johnson was in office from November 22, 1963 when he succeeded Kennedy after the assassination, and was reelected in 1964 to serve a second term until January 20, 1969. The candidates for the Presidential election of 1968 were; Democrats Hubert Humphrey - Edmund Muskie Republicans Richard Nixon - Spiro Agnew, and American Independents George Wallace - Curtis LeMay. Richard Nixon won the election to be come the 37th President of the United States. President Nixon was reelected in 1972, and was in office from January 20, 1969 until August 9, 1974 when he was impeached.
Barry Goldwater in 1964. Johnson won by 486 electoral votes to 52, carrying all the states except Alabama, Arizona, Georgia, Mississippi, Louisiana and South Carolina.
In the Presidential Election of 1964, Barry Goldwater ran against LBJ, and lost by one of the largest margins in the Twentieth Century.
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Barry Goldwater, from Arizona.
Barry Goldwater
In the election of 1964 Barry Goldwater was the Republican who ran against Lyndon Johnson.
Lyndon B. Johnson (Democrat) against Barry Goldwater (Republican)
HHH was elected the Veep in 1964 when he ran on a ticket headed by Lyndon Johnson.
Hubert Humphrey was never President; he was Vice President under Lyndon Johnson.
Lyndon B. Johnson first took office because he was the vice president when President Kennedy was killed in 1963. He then ran for another term in 1964 and was re-elected by a land-slide against a weak Republican opponent.
Richard Nixon
Hubert H. Humphrey served as Lyndon B. Johnson's vice president from 1965 to 1969.
Lyndon B. Johnson
Lyndon Baynes Johnson was Vice President of the United States of America when John Fitzgerald Kennedy was assinated in 1963. He was sworn in on the plane returning the assinated president's body to Washington. He ran for election against the Republican nominee, B. Goldwater, of Arizona, in 1964. Johnson won election. (Many pundants say that Goldwater lost the election, rather than Johnson's winning it.) The Vietnam War became a major foreign policy issue which overrode his domestic agenda; Johnson declined to run for office again in 1968. Richard Millhouse Nixon, Republician, was elected.
LBJ took over the office when JFK was killed in Dallas.
Johnson pushed through several government programs such as TAP (Total action against Poverty) which were intended to reduce or eliminate poverty. None of the programs were particularly helpful except to the people who ran them.
In the 1864 U. S. Vice Presidential Election, Andrew Johnson ran against George Pendleton.