.SHORTLY AFTER announcing his compete the Autonomous nomination in 1960, John F. Kennedy mentioned: "I do not remember a solitary case where a vice-presidential candidate assisted an appointing vote." Still, the north-easterner decided on Lyndon Johnson as his running-mate, hoping that the statesman coming from Texas will aid him in southern states. Johnson tore all over the South in a train nicknamed the LBJ Express, arriving at rallies in a ten-gallon hat to the pressures of "The Yellowish Rose of Texas". After he succeeded, Kennedy admitted that "our team could not have lugged the South without Johnson". That Johnson "supplied the South" is right now gotten wisdom. Yet how much distinction do vice-presidential picks actually create in political elections?