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AllPolitics Quiz Contest, August 8, 1996
- THE ANSWER -
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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