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[novapsyche]

George Washington and LBJ. Any other presidents who voluntarily walked away from the office? (I'm a bad Amer Studs scholar, I know.)

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[davidfcooper.livejournal.com]

novapsyche cited the example of LBJ who was on the ballot and won the New Hampshire primary in 1968 49% to 42% for Eugene McCarthy, and puledl out of the race a few weeks later. Like LBJ, Truman was also on the ballot in the 1952 New Hampshire primary, but unlike LBJ Truman lost the New Hampshire primary, and like LBJ 16 years later, he announced he would not run a few weeks after.