LBJ Knew When It Was the Best for the nation that he should retire.

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17. Nope. LBJ stepped aside and the country elected Nixon so no that was a bad idea by Johnson.

LBJ should have stayed and attacked Nixon for sabotaging the peace negotiations with the North Vietnamese. Nixon won the 1968 election not the Democratic Party nominee, Hubert Humphrey.

LBJ stepping aside ended up ended up a disaster for the USA, 22,000 more dead American GI's, not to mention what horrors were done to Cambodia and Laos

"Eventually, Nixon won by just 1 percent of the popular vote. “Once in office he escalated the war into Laos and Cambodia, with the loss of an additional 22,000 American lives, before finally settling for a peace agreement in 1973 that was within grasp in 1968,” says the BBC."

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/nixon-prolonged-vietnam-war-for-political-gainand-johnson-knew-about-it-newly-unclassified-tapes-suggest-3595441/