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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
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