In March of that year, beset by criticism of his handling of the Vietnam War, Lyndon B. Johnson announced he would not seek re-election (despite having won a landslide victory four years earlier).

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The story of Donald Trump’s secretary of defense nominee Pete Hegseth will be written in the flip-flops of his detractors, many of whom are now dismissing him as the unqualified and hunkily vapid host ...