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The 60's were a rough time for the US. A few really good things happened domestically (Civil Rights Act, creation of Medicare) but those were sandwiched in between a whole lot of other bad shit.

LBJ sacrificed the Democratic party on the alter of principal above politics -- which he should have -- to get the Civil Rights Act passed and then quickly squandered whatever political capital he still had on Vietnam.

Nixon's campaign was fueled mostly by frustrations over Vietnam and racist southern Democrats who had an axe to grind over the Civil Rights Act.

Strangely enough, The Johnson administration knew, prior to 1968, that Nixon was backdooring the NVC in an attempt to stall any negotiations until after he [presumably] won the election. That becoming public probably would have ended Nixon's campaign right then and there but for whatever reason they sat on the intel and did nothing with it.