Luke_Starkiller
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"I never heard as many compliments as anybody as I did on Inouye," President Lyndon Johnson noted on August 29, 1968.
"Yes, I know," interjected Vice President Humphrey.
"He answers Vietnam with that empty sleeve,” Johnson said. “He answers your problems with Nixon with that empty sleeve. He has that brown face. He answers everything in civil rights, and he draws a contrast without ever opening his mouth. I've never known him to make a mistake. He's got cold, clear courage, he's as loyal as a dog as you must've observed, he'd never undercut ya. He ought to appeal to the West. He ought to appeal to the world. It would be fresh and different. He’s young and new. It's something, it ought to be considered. ... I would consider Boggs... I'd consider Muskie. Terry Sanford would be good, he's been loyal but I understand the Southern boys think he's too liberal, I wouldn't irritate them any more than I had to. They all love Inouye. I don’t know why, but they all, I just — I think one thing is that they just look at him and see that he — they can’t fuss at him and say, ‘He doesn’t love peace.’ God knows, he wants peace more than anybody, and it’s quite a contrast with Agnew and civil rights thing and Nixon. And I just don't think that any Jew or any Pole or any Italian or anybody else, in other words, the South can’t get mad at him because he’s colored, and he would appeal to every other minority because he is one."
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"The Electors shall meet in their respective states, and vote by ballot for President and Vice-President, one of whom, at least, shall not be an inhabitant of the same state with themselves; they shall name in their ballots the person voted for as President, and in distinct ballots the person voted for as Vice-President, and they shall make distinct lists of all persons voted for as President, and all persons voted for as Vice-President and of the number of votes for each, which lists they shall sign and certify, and transmit sealed to the seat of the government of the United States, directed to the President of the Senate;
The President of the Senate shall, in the presence of the Senate and House of Representatives, open all the certificates and the votes shall then be counted;
The person having the greatest number of votes for President, shall be the President, if such number be a majority of the whole number of Electors appointed; and if no person have such majority, then from the persons having the highest numbers not exceeding three on the list of those voted for as President, the House of Representatives shall choose immediately, by ballot, the President. But in choosing the President, the votes shall be taken by states, the representation from each state having one vote; a quorum for this purpose shall consist of a member or members from two-thirds of the states, and a majority of all the states shall be necessary to a choice. And if the House of Representatives shall not choose a President whenever the right of choice shall devolve upon them, before the twentieth day of January next following, then the Vice-President shall act as President, as in the case of the death or other constitutional disability of the President."
I love Inouye, I always thought of using him in a 1988 TL as a Presidential/VP candidate following a more explosive Iran-Contra Scandal.
I particularly liked thinking of a Biden/Inouye ticket and the possibility of President Inouye after an ill-timed aneurysm.