.SHORTLY AFTER announcing his compete the Autonomous nomination in 1960, John F. Kennedy stated: "I do not recall a single scenario where a vice-presidential candidate supported a selecting ballot." Still, the north-easterner selected Lyndon Johnson as his running-mate, really hoping that the statesman coming from Texas will aid him in southern conditions. Johnson tore throughout the South in a learn nicknamed the LBJ Express, coming to rallies in a ten-gallon hat to the strains of "The Yellow Flower of Texas". After he won, Kennedy admitted that "we could not have actually held the South without Johnson". That Johnson "provided the South" is now received wisdom. However the amount of distinction perform vice-presidential selections actually make in elections?