CNN — President Joe Biden is the first president in more than a generation to decide not to seek a second term. Reel America Preview: LBJ Announces He Won't Run 3/31/1968 Nearly 60 years old when he made that speech, Johnson looked much older. Health was a concern for LBJ Vietnam split the party in 1968, but the growing rift …
Senator Bernie Sanders has voiced his support for pro-Palestine protests looming in US campuses, and blasted President Joe Biden over his backing of Israel. Appearing in an interview with CNN's Christiane Amanpour on Friday, Sanders compared Biden's situation with former President Lyndon Johnson, who decided against seeking reelection in 1968 due to student protests against the Vietnam War. “I worry …
Police killing blacks at the slightest pretext, sometimes without pretext, is one of the social constants of the United States. When police officer Derek Chauvin choked George Floyd to death on May 25, in Minnesota, the usual analysts pointed to the usual suspect, namely, racism. U.S. President Barack Obama radiated the hope that he would place further legal impediments, LBJ …
