gorkay
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« on: October 27, 2006, 03:02:55 PM » |
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I agree that LBJ was Kennedy's strongest choice as running mate. Nixon was hamstrung in part by the fact that the Democrats had won the Congressional elections in 1956 and 1958 and also a majority of the governorships, which winnowed down his possibilities quite a bit. Rockefeller would have been the strongest pick, but he wouldn't accept the nomination. I don't think someone like Thruston (not Thurston) Morton, who wasn't very well known, would have helped him much. Christian Herter, who had tried to get Nixon off the ticket in '56, is another possibility.
Here's another hypothetical question about the '60 election. Kennedy barely got enough votes for the nomination on the first ballot, and it has been speculated that if he had been stopped on the first ballot, he may not have gotten the nomination. It has also been speculated that the main beneficiary of a Kennedy failure on the first ballot would have been Adlai Stevenson, who was the sentimental favorite of many delegates and the second choice of most of the delegates committed on the early ballots to other candidates. Suppose Stevenson got the nomination in 1960 and gave Kennedy the Vice-Presidential nomination as a consolation prize. How would they have fared against a Nixon-Lodge ticket?
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