.SHORTLY AFTER declaring his compete the Democratic nomination in 1960, John F. Kennedy stated: "I do not recollect a single scenario where a vice-presidential applicant assisted a selecting vote." Still, the north-easterner selected Lyndon Johnson as his running-mate, wishing that the statesman coming from Texas would help him in southern states. Johnson tore around the South in a learn nicknamed the LBJ Express, arriving at rallies in a ten-gallon hat to the tensions of "The Yellow Flower of Texas". After he gained, Kennedy acknowledged that "our team could not have held the South without Johnson". That Johnson "provided the South" is currently gotten knowledge. But just how much distinction carry out vice-presidential choices in fact create in elections?