Time Magazine
Nation: THE RENUNCIATION
Friday, Apr. 12, 1968

Dublin Core

Title

Time Magazine
Nation: THE RENUNCIATION
Friday, Apr. 12, 1968

Description

"LYNDON JOHNSON'S renunciation of a second term as President dumfounded all but a score of relatives and top aides, who suspected that it might be coming. It was not included in the advance text of his bombing-pause speech. Only an hour before he went before the television cameras did he order a U.S. Army Signal Corps man to put his climactic words on the TelePrompTers. Even then, Johnson said, "I'm not going to know probably until I get in there whether I'm going to use that speech."

By the..."

Source

Files

Time LBJ Apr 12 1968.jpg

Collection

Citation

“Time Magazine
Nation: THE RENUNCIATION
Friday, Apr. 12, 1968,” Effect of Vietnam War in Boston, Digital Archive, accessed March 28, 2024, https://brianavessells.omeka.net/items/show/76.