With growing opposition to the war in Vietnam, resistance from figures within his own party, and waning personal popularity, Lyndon Johnson faced a hard road back to the White House in 1968. On March 31, at the end of a forty minute speech to the nation, President Johnson announced that he would not seek re-election. THE RIOT REPORT is now streaming with PBS Passport → https://to.pbs.org/3xPckwN | American Experience | PBS

Fifty years ago today, President Lyndon B. Johnson announced that he would not seek reelection, due in large part to declining public support for the Vietnam War. James M. Lindsay asks: Can foreign policy break a presidency once a candidate makes it to the White House? | Council on Foreign Relations