Hello and welcome to this day in esoteric political history from radiotopia.

My name is Jody Avergan.

It is our third episode of Veep Ste week, Vepstakes, I think someone suggested we call it.

I don't know about that one.

But this is our look at the election year tradition of vetting and speculating and spinning and ultimately landing on a vice presidential

nominee.

We have laid out the basics of how a VP pick goes down.

We've talked about the cruise ship rides that made the Republican establishment fall in love

with Sarah Palin.

And now we go to maybe the most significant Vice Presidential pick of all time or the most

consequential because after an assassination, the person picked as vice president becomes president and has a hugely

consequential effect on this country's history. Now half the audience I think as I say that is probably thinking oh Andrew Johnson taking over after Lincoln is killed and the other half the audience is thinking oh L. B. J. J.K. We're actually going to do the second one. It's L.B.J. That's where we are talking about here. There is a ton about what

L.B.J. did when he became president that had a huge impact on this country's history.

So let's talk about the L.B.J.

Pick, which obviously at the time,

we didn't know it was going to be so consequential.

But here, as always, Nicole Hammer of Vanderbilt

and Kelly Carter Jackson of Wellesley.

Hello Jody. Hey there. Listeners who guests Johnson were correct.

It is the lesson here. Do not pick the vice president named Johnson that is that is definitely

advice you want to have going forward your odds are very bad if you have a running mate

named Johnson but it is. But it is, you know, it is obviously interesting that the two most notable assassinations

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