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Presidential nominees have chosen their primary opponents as running mates before. In 1980, Ronald Reagan selected George H.W. Bush after a contested primary season. John F. Kennedy '40 chose primary opponent Lyndon B. Johnson in 1960. Both nominees won their general elections...
...Lyndon B. Johnson...
Ford officed first across the hall from John Kennedy, already a two-year House veteran. "I could tell from the start," claims Ford, "that the House was only a way station for him." Fourteen years later, Ford would get a Sunday call from Lyndon Johnson, beating down Ford's protests and ultimately persuading him to serve on the Warren Commission that investigated Kennedy's assassination. He would fly to Dallas to interview Jack Ruby, the killer of Kennedy assassin Lee Harvey Oswald. "He was crazy" is Ford's terse summation of Ruby. Ford is the only surviving member...
...Lyndon B. Johnson loved the beverage Fresca so much that he had a dispenser installed in the Oval Office which could be operated at his desk. His Cabinet staged an ill-advised prank, spiking the dispenser with an experimental energy drink, resulting in the Vietnam...
...sure, there are people famous for loyalty, but they are often loyal to a fault, and a supposed virtue becomes pathetic, stupid, sometimes criminal. Rose Mary Woods entered history when she stood by her man's tape recorder. Hubert Humphrey probably lost the presidency when he stuck by Lyndon Johnson and his Vietnam policies. Then there was always Mrs. Odysseus...