Did Lyndon B Johnson want Bobby Kennedy to run for president?

Only in hell! There was a natural and seismic hatred between Lyndon Johnson and Bobby Kennedy. At very first sight they despised each other, and after that, with each subsequent meeting they found more and more reasons to loathe one another. read more

I’m unsure if LBJ ever went on the record, but I’m entirely confident that he did not want Bobby Kennedy to run for president. LBJ and RFK had a famously frosty relationship. There’s no chance that Lyndon would have wanted RFK in the White House. read more

But he did have some talks about how to avoid having Johnson run for president in 1968, at the end of what would have been Kennedy's second term, she said."He didn't like that idea that Lyndon would go on and be president because he was worried for the country," she said."Bobby told me that he'd had some discussions with him. read more