You are John Kennedy-1960

[hcallega]

This is one of the bigger potential VP choices. You are John Kennedy at the 1960 Democratic Convention and you have to choose a VEEP. Lyndon Johnson is openly reluctant to take the spot, and your advisors (especially your brother/campaign manager) want to see someone diffferent anyway. Make your choice, while also recognizing that u dont think that you will die in three years!

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

Stuart Symington

[Antonio the Sixth]

I don't listen to advisors and pray LBJ to accept ( I know, Kennedy didn't like him, but I do ).

[hcallega]

Scoop FTW

[Cassius Dio]

Governor LeRoy Collins of Florida.........a southern Governor, who was acceptable for the North because of his support for civil rights.

[pogo stick]

Scoop FTW

[Lincoln Republican]

Minnesota Governor Orville Freeman, a favorite of Kennedy.

Freeman was someone Kennedy would have complete confidence in and with whom Kennedy would have been completely compatible.

[Antonio the Sixth]

Minnesota Governor Orville Freeman, a favorite of Kennedy.

Freeman was someone Kennedy would have complete confidence in and with whom Kennedy would have been completely compatible.

Yeah but he needed a southerner to win.

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

Minnesota Governor Orville Freeman, a favorite of Kennedy.

Freeman was someone Kennedy would have complete confidence in and with whom Kennedy would have been completely compatible.

Yeah but he needed a southerner to win.

Southerners acceatable to JKF (and me if I were JFK), excluding LBJ:

Governor LeRoy Collins of Florida
Senator Albert Gore of Tennessee
Senator J. Lister Hill of Alabama
Senator J. William Fulbright of Arkansas

[Lincoln Republican]

Minnesota Governor Orville Freeman, a favorite of Kennedy.

Freeman was someone Kennedy would have complete confidence in and with whom Kennedy would have been completely compatible.

Yeah but he needed a southerner to win.

Southerners acceatable to JKF (and me if I were JFK), excluding LBJ:

Governor LeRoy Collins of Florida
Senator Albert Gore of Tennessee
Senator J. Lister Hill of Alabama
Senator J. William Fulbright of Arkansas

Hill signed the Southern Manifesto which condemned the Supreme Court for ordering school desegregation.

Fulbright signed the Southern Manifesto, and joined in filibustering the Civil Rights Act of 1957.

Neither of these would be acceptable as running mates because of their opposition to desegregation and in Fulbright's case his opposition to the Civil Rights Act of 1957.

I am not sure Collins would really have had that much clout with southern voters or would have been considered seriously as Vice Presidential material.

Gore may have been okay.

[Kaine for Senate '18]

Lyndon Baines Johnson.

[Lincoln Republican]

Minnesota Governor Orville Freeman, a favorite of Kennedy.

Freeman was someone Kennedy would have complete confidence in and with whom Kennedy would have been completely compatible.

Yeah but he needed a southerner to win.

He may have needed a southerner to win, however, not just any southerner.  LBJ was crucial to Kennedy's victory.  This is one of the very few times, perhaps the only time, that the VP candidate was crucial to the victory of the ticket.

[Kaine for Senate '18]

He may have needed a southerner to win, however, not just any southerner.  LBJ was crucial to Kennedy's victory.  This is one of the very few times, perhaps the only time, that the VP candidate was crucial to the victory of the ticket.

LBJ was the single greatest VP pick ever.  He did more for the Kennedy Ticket than any other candidate in history, and is the only reason that JFK won Texas, North Carolina, and South Carolina, and possibly kept Louisiana out of the Unpledged category.

[RosettaStoned]

HHH.