.SHORTLY AFTER introducing his run for the Democratic election in 1960, John F. Kennedy pointed out: "I do not recollect a singular instance where a vice-presidential applicant contributed a selecting ballot." Still, the north-easterner chosen Lyndon Johnson as his running-mate, hoping that the statesman from Texas would certainly help him in southern conditions. Johnson tore all over the South in a learn nicknamed the LBJ Express, arriving at rallies in a ten-gallon hat to the pressures of "The Yellow Flower of Texas". After he gained, Kennedy admitted that "we could not have held the South without Johnson". That Johnson "supplied the South" is now acquired wisdom. Yet just how much distinction carry out vice-presidential choices in fact make in political elections?