Word: lbj
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...president, LBJ...
...tung pamphlets are still a hot item, and Quotations from Chairman LBJ sold out two weeks before publication. Packed between cloth covers, Charlie's chantings might well provide college campuses with a new pop-cult bestseller...
...neighborhood coordinators, the campaign brochure, and the widely-publicized and controversial "Johnson pledge card" are part of the "New Hampshire Citizens for Johnson" write-in campaign. It is attempting to hold the Granite State's 1968 National Democratic convention delegates to LBJ despite the challenge of Sen. Eugene J. McCarthy (D.-Minn.). The President's name is not permitted on the primary ballot because he hasn't announced he will be a candidate for re-election...
...King, and former Federal bureau director Bernard Boutin, now an executive at Sanders Associates, a leading defense contracting company in Nashua. Though Boutin and King deny any connection, the movement to "Draft RFK in '68" began a few weeks prior to the first "serious" planning meetings in the LBJ campaign. The Draft Kennedy movement has since been absorbed in the McCarthy campaign...
Boutin, now Johnson's campaign chairman, sees apathy as the chief problem in attempting a write-in effort for an incumbent president. To combat apathy and to "educate the electorate," Boutin came up with the pledge card (which pledges the voter to "support President LBJ." It would "give the individual voter a personal identification with the President...and give us a good listing of the real Democratic voters in the State," Boutin explained...