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WI Carter pulled a Lyndon Johnson and decided not to run for reelection in 1980? Would Mondale have picked Ted Kennedy as his running mate?
ABC News Nightline, Ted Koppel Reporting:
"Good evening. For several weeks now there has been speculation that President Carter would not run for a second term and tonight he has made it official: faced, as he himself said, with plummeting approval ratings over the economy and the hostage crisis, President Carter announced from the White House that he would not run for reelection. This leaves the field open to his natural successor, Vice President Mondale, but also to his rival for the nomination, Ted Kennedy. Mondale has stated that he will carry on the earlier message of the Carter campaign, while for his part Kennedy was unusually guarded, as if biding his time while he contemplated his own strategy..."
ABC News Nightline, Ted Koppel Reporting:
"Good evening. For several weeks now there has been speculation that President Carter would not run for a second term and tonight he has made it official: faced, as he himself said, with plummeting approval ratings over the economy and the hostage crisis, President Carter announced from the White House that he would not run for reelection. This leaves the field open to his natural successor, Vice President Mondale, but also to his rival for the nomination, Ted Kennedy. Mondale has stated that he will carry on the earlier message of the Carter campaign, while for his part Kennedy was unusually guarded, as if biding his time while he contemplated his own strategy..."