The 1968 Election
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- The 1968 Election
- New Leadership
- Johnson too far on asking for 'Great Society'
- Calling for more federal troops the government couldn't afford
- Eliminate poverty and racial inequality
- lost support off middle and lower class whites
- Anxious of Vietnam War and protests
- Calling for more federal troops the government couldn't afford
- Nixon articulates peoples concerns
- 'In these critical years America needs new leadership
- Johnson too far on asking for 'Great Society'
- Agnew
- Nixon's VP, asked others but they declined
- Gained publicity after spring riots
- Unknown to many
- looked good unlike Nixon
- didn't damage campaign like Wallace's VP
- Humphrey used Nixon's VP against him
- Said he was like Wallace's choice
- 'irresponsible'
- Imagine President Agnew if Nixon died
- Said he was like Wallace's choice
- Southern Strategy
- Johnson large part of ending segregation
- Southern whites didn't want to support his party
- Nixon promised to slow down desegregation in schools
- rejected Johnson's cutting of federal funds to schools who refused to desegregate
- effective for Nixon, changed southern voting patterns
- Johnson large part of ending segregation
- Vietnam War
- March 1968, Johnson surprised America announcing that wouldn't stand again
- Instead seeking peace in Vietnam
- Nixon accused of sabotage
- Autumn 1968
- discouraging Southern Vietnamese president from attending peace talks
- Johnson hard chose couldn't reveal Nixon without admitting he bugged Republican phones
- Logan Act
- No citizens should privately negotiate with foreign government
- War know as 'Johnson's war' damaged Humphrey's reputation
- Nixon promised 'peace with honour'
- Phasing out of troops appealed to voters
- March 1968, Johnson surprised America announcing that wouldn't stand again
- Middle America
- known as 'Silent Majority'
- speeches dedicated to them earn him support of not normal Republican supporters
- 'My source of support was more main street than wall street'
- appealed to those who opposed radialisation and change
- Promised less so cheaper government
- Democrats
- Divided and weak, Humphrey disliked
- Nixon candidate of 'law and order' unlike the chaos of the convection
- Overall Nixon handled things better than Humphrey putting across point of better law and order
- Student demonstrators smoking marijuana, swearing, sex in public
- People turned from Democrats they were anti-war
- They hated the war more than they hated Nixon
- They disrupted Humphrey's meetings with 'Dump the Hump'
- Nixon had more staff than Humphrey
- Nixon held ticket-only rallies which worked better
- Long-haired ticket holders sent away
- Any hecklers Nixon ordered secret service to get rid of
- They refused but off-duty police took up the plea
- New Leadership
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