To: pepsionice
If health issues had not come up...I suspect he would have run in 1968, and Nixon would have been unable to beat him. Agree on the 1968 part, but health reasons held him back?
Is that the current thinking?
Vietnam blew up in his face, including the Tet Offensive in January 1968.
He decides not to run in March 1968.
RFK and MLK killed in April 1968.
What a year that was.
18 posted on
01/20/2015 10:46:33 AM PST by
cicero2k
To: cicero2k
Heare the islamic tet offensive was dubbed the arab spring. Man have they studied spin since then.
27 posted on
01/20/2015 11:02:24 AM PST by
lavaroise
(A well regulated gun being necessary to the state, the rights of the militia shall not be infringed)
To: cicero2k
Borman, Lovell, and Anders circled the moon.
29 posted on
01/20/2015 11:08:59 AM PST by
reg45
(Barack 0bama: Implementing class warfare by having no class.)
To: cicero2k
Agree, just a correction. RFK was killed in June. MLK died in April.
We were losing over 300 men a week in Vietnam inn 1968.
Lots of protests, including the DNC Convention in Chicago in August.
A difficult year.
46 posted on
01/20/2015 11:44:05 AM PST by
exit82
("The Taliban is on the inside of the building" E. Nordstrom 10-10-12)
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