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1968 was a chaotic year. ... 1968 was a year in which great political heroes were killed. ... They had a dream for America. They were idealists who offered a vision to many amongst America’s disenfranchised and disaffected. ... They wanted to unite America. ... ” But most importantly, 1968 should be seen as a year in which the party system and the election process failed to give voters a real choice on the issues that were dividing the country because those issues were overshadowed by partisanship and greed. ... In January 1968, he plunged into an active campaign in New Hampshire, but after two months of intermittent stumping private polls indicated he was trailing former Vice-President Richard M. ... On February 28,1968, thirteen days before the New Hampshire voters were scheduled to cast their ballots, Romney dramatically withdrew from the race. ... Nixon had declared his candidacy for nomination as the Republican Presidential candidate on February 1, 1968 and announced plans to enter at least six primaries: New Hampshire, Wisconsin, Indiana, Nebraska, Oregon, and South Dakota. ... Most of the liberals in the party were peace doves while the rest of the party stood with Lyndon Johnson and advocated America’s role in the war. ... Lowenstein, a young New York lawyer (he was elected to the house of representatives in 1968) with wide contacts in the student and liberal movements. ... McCarthy said he hoped his candidacy:
May alleviate the sense of political helplessness and restore to many people a belief in the processes of American politics and of American government. On college campuses especially … it may counter the growing sense of alienation from politics. ... On March 12, 1968 McCarthy won 42% of the vote in the New Hampshire primary and 20 of the 24 delegates. ... #
On March 31, 1968 Democratic President Lyndon B. ... Johnson’s refusal to run in the 1968 presidential election led Vice-President Hubert Humphrey of Minnesota to enter the presidential race with the backing of President Johnson. ... Humphrey’s speech dwelt on the “politics of joy. ... On the early morning of June 5, 1968, Robert Kennedy was shot in the Ambassador Hotel kitchen, where 20 year old Sirhan Bashira Sirhan shot him at point-blank with a . ... Like his brother, President John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Robert Kennedy found in a demented marksman the nemesis for which none of the stratagems of conventional politics provided an answer.# Of all the men who challenged for the Presidency in 1968, Kennedy alone, by the assassin’s bullets was deprived of the final judgement of his party and people.#
The Republican Convention was held in Miami Beach, Florida in early August of 1968. ... #
The 1968 Republican platform struck a middle ground, avoiding the conservative tones of the 1964 document. ... #
The site of the Democratic Convention of 1968 was Chicago, Illinois. ... #
1968 was not the average election year. ... One of the most remarkable aspects of the 1968 election was the third party candidacy of former Alabama Governor and racial bigot George C. ... By the time Wallace formally announced his candidacy for the presidency on February 8, 1968, opinion polls showed him with 10 to 12 percent of the national vote and threatening to lead the major party candidates in the South. ... ”#
Wallace didn’t expect to win the election but hoped to win control of enough presidential electors to ensure that his policies “have some representation in the attitude of the new administration.”# Remarkable as Wallace’s organization was, it was matched by the propaganda campaign undertaken in the fall of 1968 by the leaders of organized labor, which sufficiently reduced Wallace’s support from blue-collar families outside the Deep South, to deny him his goal of deadlocking the election. ... As election day approached, Humphrey was rapidly becoming the “peace candidate;” even McCarthy finally endorsed him. ... Nixon told audiences, “There’s not a dime’s worth of difference between the policies Hubert Humphrey offers America and the policies America has had for the last four years. ... #
The issue of law and order was repeated throughout the 1968 campaign. ... #
Not since the Democrats in 1932 has a party come back so far, so fast from the previous elections defeat as did the Republicans in 1968. ... Nixon, in his victory outlined his vision for America:
I saw many signs in this campaign; some of them were not friendly and some were very friendly. ... We want to bring America together….#
The result of the election gave us quite possibly the most paranoid and corrupt president in American history. ... This was seemingly payoff for the great sums of money he received to finance his election campaign. ... #
1968 was a year in which the party system and the election process failed to give voters a real choice on the issues that were dividing the country because those issues were overshadowed by partisanship and greed.
Approximate Word count = 3955
Approximate Pages = 15.8
(250 words per page double spaced)
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