Presidential campaign of 1968

URI: https://gptkb.org/entity/Presidential_campaign_of_1968
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Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:politics
gptkbp:American_Independent_Party_nominee gptkb:George_Wallace
gptkbp:country gptkb:United_States
gptkbp:date November 5, 1968
gptkbp:debatedBy no televised presidential debates
gptkbp:DemocraticNominee gptkb:Lyndon_B._Johnson
gptkb:Robert_F._Kennedy
gptkb:George_McGovern
gptkb:Hubert_Humphrey
Eugene McCarthy
gptkbp:electionCycle 1968
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Presidential campaign of 1968
gptkbp:incumbent gptkb:Lyndon_B._Johnson
gptkbp:mainCandidate gptkb:George_Wallace
gptkb:Richard_Nixon
gptkb:Hubert_Humphrey
gptkbp:mediaCoverage Walter Cronkite's Vietnam commentary
gptkbp:notable_for anti-Vietnam War demonstrations
Chicago riots
gptkbp:notableAchievement Humphrey received 191 electoral votes
Nixon won with 301 electoral votes
Wallace received 46 electoral votes
gptkbp:notableAssassination gptkb:Martin_Luther_King_Jr.
gptkb:Robert_F._Kennedy
gptkbp:notableEndorsement AFL-CIO (for Humphrey)
Southern segregationists (for Wallace)
Strom Thurmond (for Nixon)
gptkbp:notableEvent gptkb:Democratic_National_Convention_protests
assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
assassination of Robert F. Kennedy
gptkbp:notableThirdParty gptkb:Peace_and_Freedom_Party
gptkb:American_Independent_Party
gptkbp:notableVoterTurnout 60.8%
gptkbp:notableWithdrawal Lyndon B. Johnson withdrew from race
gptkbp:numberOfIssues gptkb:Vietnam_War
civil rights
law and order
urban unrest
gptkbp:partOf gptkb:1968_United_States_presidential_election
gptkbp:Peace_and_Freedom_Party_nominee gptkb:Eldridge_Cleaver
gptkbp:Republican_primary_candidate gptkb:Nelson_Rockefeller
gptkb:Richard_Nixon
gptkb:Ronald_Reagan
gptkbp:RepublicanNominee gptkb:Richard_Nixon
gptkbp:slogan gptkb:Bring_Us_Together
Nixon's the One
Sock it to 'em
gptkbp:vicePresident gptkb:Edmund_Muskie
gptkb:Spiro_Agnew
gptkb:Curtis_LeMay
gptkbp:winner gptkb:Richard_Nixon
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Eugene_J._McCarthy
gptkbp:bfsLayer 6