 And he made his announcement. It was unexpected. There was a speech he was given from the Oval Office. And at the end of the address, he announced that he would not speak nor accept the nomination to be the next Democratic president. I think the context is very important for when Johnson made that decision, and that is this. The Vietnam War was raging. It was late January, early February, when the Tet Offensive was launched in Hue, Vietnam, H-U-E.