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...Veep guessing is perhaps the least profitable of political pastimes. But the guessers keep guessing and, more important, prospective presidential nominees encourage the game for all it's worth...
John F. Kennedy, during his 1960 pre-convention campaign, turned Veep playing from an inexact art into a high science; he had everyone from Herschel Loveless (Iowa) to George Docking (Kansas) to Edmund ("Pat") Brown (California) to Henry M. ("Scoop") Jackson (Washington) thinking they might be his running mate. And in so promoting the possibilities, he won a fair number of delegate votes from their states...
...military when he tried to double Brazil's minimum wage. With Vargas' suicide in 1954, Goulart inherited the leadership of the Brazilian Labor Party, became Vice President under Kubitschek, then under Quadros, thanks to a system that permits the election of a President from one party, a Veep from another...
This demonstration of trust set Washington's Veep watchers to beeping. Johnson unquestionably thinks well of Shriver. When he was Vice President, he once sent Shriver a praise-filled letter which ended: "The Peace Corps job is being not only well done, but extremely well done." Moreover, Shriver is only 48, a Catholic, a liberal, has a Midwestern background-and is married to Jack Kennedy's sister Eunice...
...good nine months before the Atlantic City convention where Lyndon Johnson must finally choose his running mate, Democrats are already playing the game of Veep, Veep. Although there is a new seriousness about it, the rules seem to be pretty much the same. For every argument on behalf of a particular candidate, others are advanced against him-and sometimes the same arguments are used both for and against...