.SHORTLY AFTER declaring his run for the Democratic nomination in 1960, John F. Kennedy claimed: "I don't remember a singular situation where a vice-presidential prospect supported an appointing ballot." Still, the north-easterner selected Lyndon Johnson as his running-mate, hoping that the legislator from Texas will aid him in southern conditions. Johnson tore across the South in a learn nicknamed the LBJ Express, getting to rallies in a ten-gallon hat to the pressures of "The Yellowish Rose of Texas". After he gained, Kennedy confessed that "our company could not have actually carried the South without Johnson". That Johnson "supplied the South" is right now received wisdom. Yet just how much difference perform vice-presidential selections in fact create in elections?