Tuhia he haere tonu mo tenei whitianga - I te tau 1968 ka aro nui a Branigin ki te motu i a ia e rere ana hei tuuru mo Lyndon B. Johnson i te kaupapa perehitini a te Manapori o Indiana. I puta atu a Johnson i te whakataetae i te Poutu-te-rangi 31, 1968, engari i haere tonu a Branigin hei kaitono tama tino pai ki a Robert F. Kennedy me Eugene McCarthy. I tūmanako a Branigin ka kaha ake te whai wāhi a ōna kaha ki a Indiana i te huihuinga ā-Kōmihana i te tau 1968
i roto i te Chicago. I mutu a Branigin i te tuarua i te tuatahi ki a Kennedy.