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| Source:American Experience- former Texas Governor John Connally. |
"After Kennedy was nominated for the Presidency, the Vice Presidency came into question. "No one was sure what Johnson would do if Kennedy offered it to him."
From American Experience
The rivalry here (if you want to call it that) is the fact that then Senator John F. Kennedy (Democrat, Massachusetts) ran for President in the Democratic primaries, against Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson (Democrat, Texas) in 1960. And Senator Kennedy obviously defeated Leader Johnson at the Democratic National Convention.
But JFK then nominates LBJ to be his Vice President, I guess to bring the Democratic Party together between its Liberal and Progressive base, with the Southern Dixiecrat base of the party. But JFK really nominated LBJ, to defeat then Vice President Richard Nixon for President, in November that year.
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