.SHORTLY AFTER announcing his compete the Autonomous nomination in 1960, John F. Kennedy claimed: "I don't remember a solitary situation where a vice-presidential candidate assisted a selecting ballot." Still, the north-easterner decided on Lyndon Johnson as his running-mate, really hoping that the legislator coming from Texas would certainly help him in southern states. Johnson tore throughout the South in a train nicknamed the LBJ Express, reaching rallies in a ten-gallon hat to the strains of "The Yellow Flower of Texas". After he succeeded, Kennedy admitted that "we could not have actually brought the South without Johnson". That Johnson "supplied the South" is actually now obtained wisdom. Yet just how much distinction perform vice-presidential selections actually create in vote-castings?