2008 was the final nail in the coffin.
***The race to succeed him pitted the current vice-president, Hubert H Humphrey,***
So soon they have forgotten about the Democrat front runner who had everything going for him, until a Palestinian Immigrant shot him dead. Bobby Kennedy. And the US descended into a mad house. That one killing did more to turn the US up side down, and it is still with us today.
A fascinating read, The Watergate Amendment, by John Fitzgerald. Up to now the greatest political maneuver in US History. Nixon, Wallace, Ford, Agnew, Johnson and Rockefeller, Kissinger, all played their part switching roles in the White House. Through the design and implementation of the 25th Amendment.
Unleavable: Until now.
There was so much about 1968 that was not 2024, and so much about 2023/4 that is not 1968. Most time-frame political analogies are false, because the contexts are nearly always too dissimilar.
JFK was a worse pervert than Clinton, by far, a true deviant.
We should never have nominated a certain candidate in 1988.
The article is a plug for a new book, The Year That Broke Politics: Collusion and Chaos in the Presidential Election of 1968 by Luke A. Nichter. Apparently, Nichter is a little skeptical of the idea that Nixon conspired with South Vietnam to scupper the peace talks. From what I can make out, he doesn't say that it definitely didn't happen or couldn't happen, but he didn't find evidence for it. So it's just possible that the story was another Russiagate hoax.
Nichter does say that Nixon and Johnson were in touch through Billy Graham, and that Nixon influenced John Connolly, not to accept a VP nomination from Humphrey. That might have influenced the election, or it might not have.
2008 was nothing compared to 2020. Neither was 1992.