Democrats had a long way to go in learning to deal with The Solid South more realistically. Stevenson had followed "the common knowledge" of the time - FDR had never thought of any of his VPs as being more than a "place filler." Like John Nance Garner said after FDR dropped him in 1936, the vice presidency wasn't worth "a bucket of warm spit."
Democrats had a long way to go in learning to deal with The Solid South more realistically. Stevenson had followed "the common knowledge" of the time - FDR had never thought of any of his VPs as being more than a "place filler." Like John Nance Garner said after FDR dropped him in 1936, the vice presidency wasn't worth "a bucket of warm spit."
Democrats had a long way to go in learning to deal with The Solid South more realistically. Stevenson had followed "the common knowledge" of the time - FDR had never thought of any of his VPs as being more than a "place filler." Like John Nance Garner said after FDR dropped him in 1936, the vice presidency wasn't worth "a bucket of warm spit."