{"id":1741,"date":"2016-11-17T14:33:24","date_gmt":"2016-11-17T14:33:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-211pinsker\/?p=1741"},"modified":"2016-11-17T14:33:24","modified_gmt":"2016-11-17T14:33:24","slug":"1968-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-211pinsker\/2016\/11\/17\/1968-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"1968 Campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Margaret O&#8217;Mara opens her discussion of the 1968 with Lyndon Johnson&#8217;s decision to abandon his bid for reelection. \u00a0This was a dramatic TV announcement in March that followed an equally unexpected on-air commentary from noted TV new anchor Walter Cronkite about the &#8220;stalemate&#8221; in Vietnam. \u00a0Click on the image below to see the series of clips that recreate O&#8217;Mara&#8217;s opening vignette.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/2015\/04\/02\/cronkite-on-vietnam\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1742\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1742\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-211pinsker\/files\/2016\/11\/Cronkite.jpeg\" alt=\"Cronkite\" width=\"259\" height=\"194\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Margaret O&#8217;Mara opens her discussion of the 1968 with Lyndon Johnson&#8217;s decision to abandon his bid for reelection. \u00a0This was a dramatic TV announcement in March that followed an equally unexpected on-air commentary from noted TV new anchor Walter Cronkite about the &#8220;stalemate&#8221; in Vietnam. \u00a0Click on the image below to see the series of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":373,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[344],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-discussion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-211pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-211pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-211pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-211pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/373"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-211pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-211pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1741\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-211pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-211pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-211pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}