The 1968 Election Candidates
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- The 1968 Election Candidates
- Republican Nomination
- Richard Nixon
- Vice President to Eisenhower 1953-1960
- Narrowly lost to Kennedy 1960
- Campaigned with Spiro Agnew (VP)
- Campaigned for Middle America
- Appealed to 'Silent Majority'
- 'middle America' felt threatened by progressiveness of 60's
- spoke about 'peace with honour' in Vietnam
- Election focused on violence in the ghettos and at the Democrats convention
- tough on law and order
- Promised to get people off of welfare
- Southern Strategy- intended to take votes from Wallace
- give states more rights at expense of federal government
- Richard Nixon
- Democratic Nomination
- Johnston
- 35% popularity
- wanted to seek peace in Vietnam
- died 1973
- Bobby Kennedy
- Anti -war
- common touch
- Assassinated 1968
- Eugene McCarthy
- Critical of War
- "Clean for 'Gene"
- Hubert Humphery
- Vice President determined to see out war
- Disliked by many
- 'Johnson's Man'
- intended to carry on developing the 'Great Society'
- Faced widespread opposition from those inside his own party
- intended to continue war using similar policies as before
- Democratic Convetion
- Party in Disarray
- Protestors
- Chaos
- Supposed LSD in water
- Made party look weak
- Humphrey put forward
- Johnston
- Independent
- George Wallace
- Pro War
- Racist
- Segregationist
- Against protesting
- running mate threatened to 'bomb North Vietnam back to the stone age'
- promised to keep peace even if it took '30 thousand troops armed with 3 foot bayonets'
- said that 'if any demonstrator lies down in front of my car, it will be the last car he ever lies in front of.'
- criticised 'pointy-headed professors turning their noses up at us
- George Wallace
- Republican Nomination
- Great Society= a set of domestic programs in the US launched by Johnson. Main goal to elminate poverty and racial injustice
- Southern Strategy= Republican party strategy of gaining political support for certain candidates in southern US by appealing to racism against African Americans
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