Getting to California

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Getting to California
Ch 25 Sec 3 1968
____________ - the first Democratic candidate to
challenge LBJ who ran on a platform of ending the
Vietnam War ____________ - heavy favorite to win
the Democratic nomination due to his opposition
to the war and his name ____________ - Vice
President to LBJ who ran for the Democratic
nomination but stayed loyal to Johnson ___________
_ - assassinated Robert Kennedy in Los Angeles
(June 1968) due to RFKs support of Israels
right to exist ____________ - took place in
Chicago and resulted in violence as antiwar
demonstrators clashed with police who were given
orders to silence them by Mayor Richard Daley
____________ - segregationist Governor of
Alabama who ran for President as an independent
(13 of vote 46 electoral) ____________ -
Republican who won the Presidency in 1968 largely
due to the reinvention of himself as well as
his promise to return the country to law and
order and a secret plan to end the war in
Vietnam
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Textbook Assignment (pp.787-789)
Section 3 The Election of 1968

1. Who was the first person to challenge Lyndon
   Johnson in the 1968 presidential election?
2. Why was Robert Kennedy killed in June 1968 and
   how did this have an effect on the 1968 election?
3. What happened at the 1968 Democratic National
   Convention in Chicago and who won the nomination?
4. What did Richard Nixon promise the American
   people in the 1968 election?

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Chapter Objectives
Section 3 Vietnam Divides the Nation

• Analyze why support for the war began to weaken. ?

• Describe the motives of those in the antiwar
  movement.

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Section 3-12
1968 The Pivotal Year (cont.)

• Eugene McCarthy challenged Lyndon Johnson for the
  Presidency in November 1967 (two months prior to
  the Tet Offensive)
• He had a strict anti-war stance
• In March of 1968 he won 40 of the vote in the
  New Hampshire primary v. LBJ

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Section 3-12
1968 The Pivotal Year (cont.)

• Sensing a weakness New York Senator Robert
  Kennedy entered the 1968 presidential race as a
  dove candidates for the Democratic nomination.
• Captured the heart of Americans with the spirit
  and charisma of his slain brother.

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Section 3-13
1968 The Pivotal Year (cont.)

• Lyndon Johnson withdrew from the presidential
  race, announcing his decision in an address to
  the nation on March 31, 1968.
• Vice President Hubert Humphrey entered the race
  as the White Houses incumbent.

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Section 3-13
1968 The Pivotal Year (cont.)

• By the summer of 1968, Robert Kennedy had taken
  the lead for the Democratic nomination.
• In June of 1968 he had won the California primary
  giving him the momentum headed into the DNC in
  Chicago.

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Time Notebook 6
There are those that look at things the way they
are, and ask why? I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not? Robert F. Kennedy end
of every campaign speech in 1968 election
Robert Kennedy was paraphrasing a line from
George Bernard Shaws play Back To Methuselah
where a man says You see things and you say,
Why? But I dream things that never were and I
say, Why not?"
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Section 3-13
1968 The Pivotal Year (cont.)

• The night that RFK won that primary, he was
  assassinated by a kitchen worker in the Los
  Angeles Ambassador hotel.
• The assassin, Sirhan Sirhan, was an Arab
  nationalist who disapproved of Kennedys
  pro-Israeli views.

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Section 3-13
1968 The Pivotal Year (cont.)

• The violence of 1968 continued with a clash
  between protesters and police at the Democratic
  National Convention in Chicago in August.

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Section 3-14
1968 The Pivotal Year (cont.)

• The protests were about the U.S. (LBJs) role in
  the Vietnam War.
• They were later joined by the supporters of
  Eugene McCarthy who felt rejected once Vice
  President Hubert Humphrey wrapped up the
  nomination.

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Section 3-14
1968 The Pivotal Year (cont.)

• The chaos benefited the Republican presidential
  candidate, Richard Nixon, and an independent,
  Governor George Wallace of Alabama.

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Section 3-14
1968 The Pivotal Year (cont.)

• Learning from his mistakes in 1960, Richard Nixon
  tried to be more personable during the 1968
  election
• The New Nixon promised to regain order and end
  the war in Vietnam.

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Section 3-15
1968 The Pivotal Year (cont.)

• Although Johnson attempted to help the Democratic
  campaign with a cease-fire, Humphrey lost by more
  than 100 electoral votes as well as the popular
  vote by a slim margin.

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Section 3-15
1968 The Pivotal Year (cont.)

• Richard Nixon became the 37th U.S. President.

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Time Notebook 18
CAPTURED, 1968. USS Pueblo, in January was
captured off the coast of North Korea because it
was on a spying mission for the military.
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Time Notebook 17
PICKETED, 1968. The Miss America Pageant in
Atlantic City, by protesters who believe the
contests emphasis on womens physical beauty is
degrading and minimizes the importance of womens
intellect.
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Time Notebook 18
REMOVED, 1968. TOY GUNS, from the Sears, Roebuck
Christmas catalog after the assassinations of
Martin Luther King, Jr., and Robert Kennedy.
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Time Notebook 18
Black Power, 1968. Mexico City Olympics After
winning the mens 200 meter, gold medalist Tommie
Smith and bronze medalist John Carlos raise their
black gloved fists in a Black Power salute.
This was also repeated by three other male
athletes the following day.
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Time Notebook 18
IN ORBIT, 1968. Apollo VIII, completes the first
manned orbit of the moon on Christmas Eve
providing the first image of the Earth as seen
from the moon. Seven months later, on July 20th,
1969, Apollo XI will fulfill John Kennedys
pledge to have a man walk on the moon by the end
of the 1960s.
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Time Notebook 18
The Birth, 1968. As the tragic events of 1968
took over the nation, only one glimmer of hope
remained when on March 22nd of that year, the
nation was blessed with greatness.
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