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- U.S. CAMPAIGN, Page 39When Push Came to Shove
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- Dan Quayle is hardly the first Vice President to become a
- political liability for his boss. Three times in this century
- incumbent Presidents have chosen new running mates. Those left
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- JOHN NANCE GARNER (1940). As F.D.R. dithered over whether
- to run for a third term, Garner, who had opposed Roosevelt's
- pro-labor New Deal policies and his attempt to pack the Supreme
- Court, entered the presidential race himself. With the Nazi
- threat to Europe looming larger in the summer of 1940, Roosevelt
- engineered his own renomination and shunted Garner aside in
- favor of Secretary of Agriculture Henry Wallace, a former
- Republican but a loyal New Dealer.
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- HENRY WALLACE (1944). Overshadowing Roosevelt's choice of
- a running mate was the suspicion that he might not live to the
- end of a fourth term. Vice President Wallace's advocacy of
- civil rights and his utopian rhetoric about a global New Deal
- made him anathema to big-city bosses and conservative Southern
- Democrats. F.D.R. toyed with the idea of picking Supreme Court
- Justice William O. Douglas to replace him, but finally settled
- on Missouri Senator Harry Truman.
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- NELSON ROCKEFELLER (1976). With Gerald Ford facing a
- challenge from Ronald Reagan for the Republican nomination in
- 1976, Rockefeller served as a lightning rod for conservatives,
- who had never forgiven him for opposing Barry Goldwater in 1964.
- Rocky tried to appease the right wing by attacking welfare
- "cheats." To no avail: Ford's campaign manager described him as
- the President's "No. 1 problem" in winning the G.O.P.
- nomination. In November 1975 Rockefeller jumped off the ticket
- before Ford could push him. Ford replaced him with Kansas
- Senator Bob Dole, but the ticket lost to Jimmy Carter and Walter
- Mondale.
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