.SHORTLY AFTER introducing his compete the Autonomous nomination in 1960, John F. Kennedy claimed: "I don't remember a single situation where a vice-presidential applicant contributed an appointing vote." Still, the north-easterner decided on Lyndon Johnson as his running-mate, hoping that the legislator coming from Texas would assist him in southern conditions. Johnson tore across the South in a train nicknamed the LBJ Express, reaching rallies in a ten-gallon hat to the strains of "The Yellow Rose of Texas". After he won, Kennedy confessed that "our team couldn't have lugged the South without Johnson". That Johnson "supplied the South" is actually currently obtained understanding. But just how much difference carry out vice-presidential picks actually create in political elections?