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February 17, 1968, Lyndon Johnson loses ground in Gallup polling.

I'm John Meacham, and this is Reflections of this Spring.

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He had won the greatest of victories not quite four years before.

Lyndon Bain's Johnson and accidental president had marshaled the powers of the office as few other men ever had.

Civil rights, voting rights, education, investments of all kinds.

And yet a seemingly unending war in Southeast Asia was threatening everything he had fought to achieve.

On this date in 1968, the year of a possible re-election,

President Johnson read disturbing news on the front page of the New York Times.

His popularity was in jeopardy, perhaps fatally so.

In October 1967, his job approval rating had hit a low of 38%.

It then climbed a bit before the Tet Offensive in Vietnam caused him seven points in the opening weeks of 1968.

Johnson understood the vicissitudes of politics.

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