Former Vice President Nixon (R-CA) accepted the nomination to be the 1968 Republican candidate for president of the United States. In his remarks he called for new leadership, and end to domestic protests and violence, and a voice for America's silent majority. He also said he would seek to negotiate peace in Vietnam and work toward the goal of "an open world." The 1968 ...Republican National Convention was held in the Miami Beach Convention Center. Richard Norton Smith recorded an introduction to the speech at some time in 2008.
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Sen. Kennedy and Sen. McCarthy, candidates for the Democratic nomination for the presidency in 1968, appeared in a short clip from ABC News' Sunday morning public affairs program [Issues and Answers]. Sen. Kennedy died a few days later from an assassin's bullet.

President Johnson spoke in a nationwide broadcast from the Oval Office to announce his reasons for declining to run for president in 1968. He said he sought to work on the immense problems facing the country without taking the time out to campaign for reelection. This speech occurred two months after the Tet offensive.

White House newsreel footage chronicled events during Johnson's presidency in January of 1968.

This program was produced at the Naval Photographic Center.
The program was shown courtesy of the Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library & Museum.
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A portion of a June 1967 Universal Newsreel about the nomination of civil rights lawyer Thurgood Marshall to the U.S. Supreme Court shows various clips of Mr. Marshall, including with President Lyndon Johnson. President Johnson announced the nomination of the first black man to sit on the Court on June 13, 1967, following the retirement of Justice Tom C. Clark.

News footage was shown of a meeting between President Johnson and Premier Kosygin held in New Jersey following an emergency meeting of the UN General Assembly to discuss the Middle East crisis.