Προεδρική εκλογή των Ηνωμένων Πολιτειών 1964: Διαφορά μεταξύ των αναθεωρήσεων

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Στο εθνικό συνέδριο το μη φυλετικά διαχωρισμένο [[Δημοκρατικό Κόμμα Ελευθερίας του Μισισίπι]] (MFDP) διεκδίκησε τις έδρες για τους αντιπροσώπους του Μισισίπι, όχι με βάση τους κομματικούς κανόνες, αλλά πειδή η επίσημη αντιπροσωπεία του Μισισίπι είχε εκλεγεί από έναν [[Νόμοι Τζιμ Κρόου|προκριματικό τύπου Τζμ Κρόου]]. TheΟι party'sφιλελεύθεροι liberalηγέτες leadersτου supportedκόμματος anυποστήριξαν evenμια divisionεξ ofημισείας theδιαίρεση seatsτων betweenεδρών theμεταξύ twoτων delegations;δύο Johnsonαντιπροσωπειών· wasο concernedΤζόνσον thatανησυχούσε ότι, whileενώ theοι regularσυνηθισμένο DemocratsΔημοκρατικοί ofτου MississippiΜισισίπι wouldθα probablyψληφιζαν voteτον forΓκολντγουότερ Goldwaterούτως anywayή άλλως,το να τους απορρίψουν rejectingθα themτον wouldέκανε loseνα himχάσει theτο SouthΝότο. EventuallyΤελικάEventually, [[Hubert Humphrey]], [[Walter Reuther]] and the black civil rights leaders including [[Roy Wilkins]], [[Martin Luther King, Jr.]], and [[Bayard Rustin]] worked out a compromise: the MFDP took two seats; the regular Mississippi delegation was required to pledge to support the party ticket; and no future Democratic convention would accept a delegation chosen by a discriminatory poll. [[Joseph L. Rauh, Jr.]], the MFDP's lawyer, initially refused this deal, but they eventually took their seats. Many white delegates from Mississippi and Alabama refused to sign any pledge, and left the convention; and many young civil rights workers were offended by any compromise.<ref>Unger and Unger; ''LBJ; a Life'' (1999) pp. 325-6; Dallek ''Flawed Giant'', p. 164; Evans and Novak (1966) 451-56 claim that the MFDP fell under the influence of "black radicals" and rejected their seats.</ref> Johnson carried the South as a whole in the election, but lost [[Louisiana]], [[Alabama]], [[Mississippi]], [[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]] and [[South Carolina]].
 
Johnson also faced trouble from [[Robert F. Kennedy]], President Kennedy's younger brother and the U.S. [[Attorney General]]. Kennedy and Johnson's relationship was troubled from the time Robert Kennedy was a Senate staffer. Then-Majority Leader Johnson surmised that Kennedy's hostility was the direct result of the fact that Johnson frequently recounted a story that embarrassed Kennedy's father, [[Joseph P. Kennedy]], the ambassador to the United Kingdom. According to his recounting, Johnson and [[President Franklin Roosevelt]] misled the ambassador, upon a return visit to the United States, to believe that Roosevelt wished to meet in Washington for friendly purposes; in fact Roosevelt planned to—and did—fire the ambassador, due to the ambassador's well publicized views.<ref> Robert A. Caro; "The Lyndon Johnson Years: The Passage of Power" (2012), ch. 3 ("It’s about Roosevelt and his father", Johnson said)</ref> The Johnson–Kennedy hostility was rendered mutual in the 1960 primaries and the [[1960 Democratic National Convention]], when Robert Kennedy had tried to prevent Johnson from becoming his brother's running mate, a move that deeply embittered both men. Days after John Kennedy's assassination, Johnson opted to call Robert Kennedy to ask the bereaved brother to remind him the exact language of the constitutional oath of office.