He was criticized for excellerating the war
no hahah he was running for president during the vietnam war
Andrew Johnson was Abraham Lincoln's vice-presidential running mate in the 1864 presidential election. He succeeded Lincoln when Lincoln was assassinated in April of 1865.
Passed the 12th amendment, providing that electors use separate ballots to vote for a president and vice president
The 12th amendment
There has been more than one. George Washington ran unopposed. John Tyler became president on the death of W.H. Harrison. Millard Filmore became president on the death of Zachary Taylor. Andrew Johnson became president on the death assassination of Abraham Lincoln... and so on.
He was the Vice President
no hahah he was running for president during the vietnam war
Johnson took over as President after Kennedy was assassinated. Then in 1964 the Democratic Party's Johnson and running mate Humphrey beat Goldwater and his running mate William Miller who were the Republican nominees.
Ho Chi Minh until about 1969.
In the 1960 campaign, Johnson, as John F. Kennedy's running mate, was elected Vice President. On November 22, 1963, when Kennedy was assassinated, Johnson was sworn in as President.
President Johnson told the nation on March 31st 1968 that he would not be running for re-election. He also announced that he will be devoting his last months of presidency to making peace in North Vietnam.
President Andrew Johnson
Andrew Johnson was Abraham Lincoln's vice-presidential running mate in the 1864 presidential election. Abraham Lincoln and his running mate Andrew Johnson received 2,218,388 popular votes and 212 electoral votes in the 1864 election. Lincoln was elected president and Johnson was elected vice-president.
President Johnson began the troop draw-down in late 1969, while Nixon was running for President with the promise to bring "Peace with honor." by April, 1973, all U.S troops had left South Vietnam. Two years later, the country fell to the communists, unifying the country as a dictatorship.
Kennedy chose Lyndon Johnson as his vice-president (running mate) in order to appeal to voters from the southern states, since Kennedy was from the northeast.
Andrew Johnson was the US President after Abraham Lincoln.Andrew Johnson was the 17th President of the United States from April 15, 1865 to March 4, 1869. The vice president for Lincoln's second term, Andrew Johnson replaced Hannibal Hamlin as Vice President and became president after Lincoln was assassinated, sworn in three hours after Lincoln died in 1865. Andrew Johnson was the governor of Tennessee and one of the few Southern Senators to stay loyal to the Union during the Civil War. Johnson was elected to be Lincoln's running-mate for the 1864 election.
Abraham Lincoln had a two vice presidents. For his first term, his running mate was Hannibal Hamlin, the first Republican Party vice president. He had served as governor of Maine as well as in the Senate and House of Representatives. His second vice president, who became president after his assassination was Andrew Johnson. Johnson was a Democrat running with Lincoln on the National Union ticket.