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After U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson decided not to run for re-election in 1968, Hubert Humphrey launched his campaign and secured the Democratic Party's nomination for president. His running mate was Maine Senator Edmund Muskie. The assassinations of Robert Kennedy and civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. combined with increased opposition to the Vietnam War were harmful to the Humphrey/Muskie ticket, and they ultimately lost to Richard Nixon in the general election. 

After the 1968 election, Humphrey taught at Macalester College and the University of Minnesota before returning to the Senate in 1976, where he remained until his death in 1978. Muskie was a candidate for the Democratic presidential primaries in 1972 and returned to the Senate in 1974 before serving as Secretary of State under President Jimmy Carter from 1980 to 1981. 

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In the 1984 presidential election incumbent President Ronald Reagan and Vice President George H.W. Bush faced former Vice President Walter Mondale and New York Representative Geraldine Ferraro. President Reagan pointed to his strong economic recovery from stagflation and the 1981 recession and the renewed national confidence and prestige his presidency had overseen. The Reagan campaign advertised and effectively neutralized any concerns regarding Reagan’s age. Reagan and Bush were successful on Election Day and won 49 out of 50 states in a landslide victory against Mondale and Ferraro.

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On January 14, 2004, MTV launched the "Choose or Lose 2004" campaign to encourage 20 million people between the ages 18 and 30 to vote in the 2004 presidential election. They partnered with other organizations, such as Rock the Vote, Meetup.com, and the NAACP throughout the year to host events and educational forums to help voters learn more about the democratic process and make informed voting decisions. The event ended in Fall 2004 with the online "PRE-Lection", in which participants submitted votes to declare their choice for the President of the United States.

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Jimmy Carter was the Democratic nominee for the United States Presidency in 1976, and Democrat Vance Hartke from Indiana ran for re-election to the U.S. Senate in the same year.

Carter won the popular vote at 50.1 percent and took 297 electoral votes over Republican Gerald Ford. Carter served as the 39th president from 1977 to 1981. He lost the 1980 race to President Ronald Reagan. Prior to his first run for president, Carter grew up in Plains, Georgia, where his family had a peanut farm. He served in the U.S. Navy from 1943 to 1953. He was a Georgia State Senator from 1963 to 1967 and the Governor of Georgia from 1971 to 1975. Following their time in the White House, Carter and his wife, Rosalynn, returned to Plains. Carter was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002.

Hartke served as a U.S. Senator from Indiana from 1959 until 1977 and was known for his opposition to the Vietnam War. Richard Lugar defeated Hartke in the 1976 Senate race. Hartke also ran in the 1972 Democratic presidential primaries but withdrew.

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Lyndon B. Johnson was born in Stonewall, Texas, on August 27th, 1908. He was a Representative for Texas from 1937 to 1949, Senator for Texas from 1949 to 1961, Vice President from 1961 to 1963, and the thirty-sixth president from 1963 to 1969. He first became president following the assassination of John F. Kennedy in 1963. 

Johnson continued Kennedy’s work with the civil rights issues at the time and passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964. He was against segregation and wanted to help those in poverty rise up.

1964 was also the year for the next presidential election. Johnson won and wanted to execute his “Great Society” program. It was “aid to education, attack on disease, Medicare, urban renewal, beautification, conservation, development of depressed regions, a wide-scale fight against poverty, control and prevention of crime and delinquency, removal of obstacles to the right to vote”. Johnson also continued the research into space exploration. A couple of months after he would leave the office, two men (a third in the space shuttle) would be the first to step on the moon. 

While in office, he dealt with the rising counter-culture of anti-war sentiment and other movements lead by the youth of America. He attempted peace talks with North Vietnam but did not live to see the success of them. He died on January 22, 1973, on his ranch in Texas.

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In 1970, Guam held its first election in which Guamanians were given the freedom to elect their governor. Running in the election was Ricardo Bordallo, who served on the fifteen member Guam Legislature. Bordallo ran alongside Senator Richard "Dick" Taitano, who sought the position of Lieutenant Governor. At the time, Guam's Democratic Party held claim over seventy-two percent of the voting population. Regardless, there lied deep divisions within the party's members on how the group should be run, causing for a lack of unity. Bordallo and Taitano would go on to win the primaries by a slight margin, allowing them to face off in the general election against Republican candidates, Carlos G. Camacho and Kurt S. Moylan. However, the conflicting nature of the Democratic Party, as well as an aggressive ad campaign by the Republicans would go on to cost Bordallo and Taitano the election. Bordallo would again run for the 1974 election, ultimately winning. 

Serving as Governor of Guam from 1975 to 1979 and 1983 to 1987, Bordallo's political career would end in 1987 when he was convicted on charges of corruption and sentenced to prison. Just prior to beginning his prison sentence, Bordallo committed suicide.

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The Presidential Classroom, originally a non-profit, non-partisan educational organization, was founded in 1968 and accredited by the University of Virginia in order to invigorate civic responsibility by introducing high school students interested in public leadership and civic affairs to experience Democracy in Action. The program enrolled several thousands of high school students every year to attend one of 18 week-long conferences held in Washington, DC. Subjects included American government, public policy, science, art, law, history and international affairs. The program became affiliated with the Miller Center at the University of Virginia with the two organizations combining resources to create a new Presidential Classroom due to their shared mission in promoting nonpartisan civic education. The Miller Center launched a Presidential Classroom website in 2012 to serve as an online resource to teach students about the U.S. presidency and government. The site includes access to features such as exhibits, lesson plans, and audio and transcripts of secret White House tapes recorded by prior U.S. Presidents. The site also has access to Miller Center resources such as expert essays, a comprehensive presidential speech archive, oral-history interviews conducted by scholars, and videos discussing policy making and current events.

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Saviour's Day is a holiday celebrated by the Nation of Islam, an African American political and religious movement, honoring the birth of their founder, Wallace Fard Muhammad. In 1984, over 12,000 people convened in Chicago, Illinois to celebrate; the event is also remembered for Minister Farrakhan's publicly supporting Reverend Jesse Jackson's decision to run for president, despite controversy among members of the Jewish community. 

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