.SHORTLY AFTER revealing his run for the Autonomous nomination in 1960, John F. Kennedy claimed: "I don't remember a solitary case where a vice-presidential candidate supported an appointing ballot." Still, the north-easterner decided on Lyndon Johnson as his running-mate, wishing that the senator from Texas would aid him in southern conditions. Johnson tore throughout the South in a train nicknamed the LBJ Express, arriving at rallies in a ten-gallon hat to the tensions of "The Yellowish Rose of Texas". After he gained, Kennedy acknowledged that "our company could not have actually brought the South without Johnson". That Johnson "provided the South" is now received understanding. But just how much distinction perform vice-presidential choices actually create in political elections?