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On TV, weekend anchors scrambled to cover a political earthquake
Follow our live blog for more coverage. WASHINGTON - For the US news media, it happened again for the first time in 56 years: A sitting Democratic president abruptly dropped out of the campaign. On a Sunday. When Mr Lyndon B. Johnson announced his …