text: By 1968 , that annus horribilis when Johnson cracked from the pressure of mediating an increasingly centripetal Democratic Party and Kennedy fell to an assassin 's bullet , two political ideal-types had a silent majority who supported Johnson 's war on Vietnam and voted in Richard Nixon , and a new class of liberal professionals and youth who supported Johnson 's war on poverty but detested everything Richard Nixon represented .
  
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  Some people supported Johnson and voted in Nixon .