Saturday 27 January 2018

Lyndon Baines Johnson

US President.  Was deputy president when John F Kennedy was assassinated and was sworn in on 22 November 1963.  He contested and won the Presidential Election on 3 November 1964, but declined to stand for the following election on 5 November 1968, which he would have been eligible to stand for as he'd served less than half of the remaining Kennedy term.  The Vietnam War played a big part in this as it drained him of vigour and enthusiasm for politics.

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