Everyone's conclusion about the only time a president ever chose not to run for re-election is that doing that means your party is cooked. Because LBJ did and then Nixon was elected.
Yes, and nothing else happened in 1968. That was a notably stable and variable-free time in US history. Nothing weird happened, like the most popular politician in the race getting shot dead in the process of fuckin winning
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