How to resolve LBJ not running for re-election? Just knew he’d lose? RFK assassination? Nixon wins, nominates Warren Commission stooge Ford for VP.
I guess the official version is that he thought he would lose, because Vietnam had become so unpopular.
"Nixon wins, nominates Warren Commission stooge Ford for VP."
And hired the "plumbers" to handle his "dirty tricks", who just happened to be a bunch of ex-FBI, ex-CIA, and anti-Castro Cubans...
“How to resolve LBJ not running for re-election?”
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Probably because LBJ was involved and the CIA didn’t want any further suspicion about him raised in the press which might give way to a deeper investigation that would wind up implicating them too. So the CIA tells LBJ to give up on any plans for reelection and LBJ knowing what they did to Kennedy wasn’t about to argue with them.