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<blockquote style="position: relative; padding-left: 55px;"><section><a href="https://toad.social/users/minorusaba/statuses/112827079891853244">Minoru Saba (minorusaba@toad.social)'s status on Monday, 22-Jul-2024 08:30:14 JST</a><a href="https://toad.social/@minorusaba" title="minorusaba@toad.social"><img src="https://gnusocial.jp/avatar/139443-48-20230930221108.webp" width="48" height="48" alt="Minoru Saba" style="position: absolute; left: 0; top: 0;">Minoru Saba</a></section><article><p>Japanese TV news show said last time incumbent US President decided not to seek re-election was LBJ in 1968.<br>Olympics starting this week will serve as major excuse for media in <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Japan" rel="tag">#Japan</a> to give scant coverage to "boring"/"complicated" events that will have long term consequences even in Japan in a highly interconnected world.<br>Hoping US doesn't experience another Hubert Humphrey event and vainly hoping Japanese journalists acted more like canaries than parrots.<br><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1968_Democratic_Party_presidential_primaries" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1968_Democratic_Party_presidential_primaries</a></p></article><footer><a rel="bookmark" href="https://gnusocial.jp/conversation/3409552#notice-6706113">In conversation</a><time datetime="2024-07-22T08:30:14+09:00" title="Monday, 22-Jul-2024 08:30:14 JST">about 4 months ago</time> <span>from <span><a href="https://toad.social/@minorusaba/112827079891853244" rel="external" title="Sent from toad.social via ActivityPub">toad.social</a></span></span><a href="https://toad.social/@minorusaba/112827079891853244">permalink</a><h4>Attachments</h4><ol><li><article><header><div>Domain not in remote thumbnail source whitelist: upload.wikimedia.org</div><h5><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1968_Democratic_Party_presidential_primaries">1968 Democratic Party presidential primaries</a></h5><div></div></header><div>From March to July 1968, Democratic Party voters elected delegates to the 1968 Democratic National Convention for the purpose of selecting the party's nominee for president in the upcoming election. After an inconclusive and tumultuous campaign focused on the Vietnam War and marred by the June assassination of Robert F. Kennedy, incumbent Vice President Hubert Humphrey was nominated at the 1968 Democratic National Convention held from August 26 to August 29, 1968, in Chicago, Illinois.
The campaign for the nomination began with incumbent President Lyndon B. Johnson expected to win re-nomination for a second consecutive election, despite low approval ratings following the Tet Offensive in January 1968. His only significant challenger was Eugene McCarthy, an anti-war Senator from Minnesota. After McCarthy nearly won the New Hampshire primary, Senator Robert F. Kennedy, another critic of the war and the brother of the late President John F. Kennedy, entered the race. Johnson soon announced that he would not campaign for re-election. In April, Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey joined the race as the establishment candidate; he did not criticize the administration's conduct of...</div><footer></footer></article></li></ol></footer></blockquote>

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Minoru Saba (minorusaba@toad.social)'s status on Monday, 22-Jul-2024 08:30:14 JST Minoru Saba
Japanese TV news show said last time incumbent US President decided not to seek re-election was LBJ in 1968.
Olympics starting this week will serve as major excuse for media in #Japan to give scant coverage to "boring"/"complicated" events that will have long term consequences even in Japan in a highly interconnected world.
Hoping US doesn't experience another Hubert Humphrey event and vainly hoping Japanese journalists acted more like canaries than parrots.
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  1968 Democratic Party presidential primaries
  From March to July 1968, Democratic Party voters elected delegates to the 1968 Democratic National Convention for the purpose of selecting the party's nominee for president in the upcoming election. After an inconclusive and tumultuous campaign focused on the Vietnam War and marred by the June assassination of Robert F. Kennedy, incumbent Vice President Hubert Humphrey was nominated at the 1968 Democratic National Convention held from August 26 to August 29, 1968, in Chicago, Illinois. The campaign for the nomination began with incumbent President Lyndon B. Johnson expected to win re-nomination for a second consecutive election, despite low approval ratings following the Tet Offensive in January 1968. His only significant challenger was Eugene McCarthy, an anti-war Senator from Minnesota. After McCarthy nearly won the New Hampshire primary, Senator Robert F. Kennedy, another critic of the war and the brother of the late President John F. Kennedy, entered the race. Johnson soon announced that he would not campaign for re-election. In April, Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey joined the race as the establishment candidate; he did not criticize the administration's conduct of...

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