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Select the correct answer.
Read the speech excerpt:
"With America's sons in the fields far away, with America's future under challenge right here at home, with our hopes and the world's hopes for peace in
the balance every day, I do not believe that I should devote an hour or a day of my time to any personal partisan causes or to any duties other than the
awesome duties of this office the Presidency of your country. Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another
term as your President....
-President Lyndon B. Johnson, March 31, 1968
What was Johnson's primary reason for this announcement?
COA instances of violence against Americans in Europe
OB. assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert Kennedy
the United States' involvement in the Vietnam War
OC.
O D.
his inability to sufficiently address poverty in America