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AllPolitics Quiz Contest, August 8, 1996

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Which among the following statements is FALSE?

  • Bob Dole is expected to announce his running mate this Saturday in Russell, Kansas.
  • Bill Clinton ended his weeks-long veep search in 1992 with a formal announcement of Al Gore from the Arkansas governor's mansion.
  • Geroge Bush's selection of Dan Quayle came as a surprise even to his own campaign advisers, and was made on a Riverboat in Louisiana.
  • After a highly secretive veep selection process, Walter Mondale announced his selection of Geraldine Ferraro at New York's Plaza Hotel two days before the Democratic convention.

      Mondale conducted his search much like Carter did.

  • Jimmy Carter prepared in 1976 for his choice of Walter Mondale by sending out questionnaires to various possibles asking about "skeletons in the closet" and requesting financial statements.
  • With the president seriously ill, Harry S. Truman became Franklin D. Roosevelt's last vice president in 1945 because someone had switched his name to the top on a list of two that was shown to delegates at the convention.


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