On this date, March 31, 1968, US President Lyndon Johnson appeared on live television to make the announcement that he was partially stopping the American bombing of Vietnam and that he would not run for president in his party.  “There is division in the American house now,” Lyndon Johnson declared. Most observers were taken aback when President Lyndon Johnson declared that he would not run and acknowledged the “division in the American house” over the Vietnam War and domestic unrest.  He said, “I do not believe that I should devote an hour or a day of my time to any … Continue reading The Greatest Surprise Of The Century, Lyndon Johnson Quits