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Article: Candidate has more at stake in running mate before vote
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- The Topeka Capital-Journal
- Article date:
- January 7, 2000
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- Picking a running mate is the first thing a presidential nominee
does with much of the country paying attention.
Given the homogenization of America, and especially of its
political class, there is not apt to be anything again remotely like
the Democratic tickets of 1932 and 1936. As speculating about vice
presidential nominations begins, remember when the top of the
Democratic ticket, Franklin Roos- evelt, came from the top of
American society --- the Hudson Valley squirearchy --- and his
running mate came from America's frontier.
John Nance ("Cactus Jack") Garner, who died in 1967 at age 98,
was, as Alistair Cooke writes in his new book ("Memories of the Great
& the Good"), the last ...