Brooks prevailed in his final race, 74-26 percent, though the Kennedy-Johnson ticket did not carry the Fourth Congressional District.
The Kennedy-Johnson ticket carried Texas by a scant 30,000 votes that year, an essential element in the narrow Democratic victory.
Realizing the ramifications of counting Texas votes as their own, Salinger asked him whether he was considering a Kennedy-Johnson ticket, and Robert replied, yes.
He worked in every Democratic Presidential race from 1928 to the Kennedy-Johnson ticket of 1960, when he served as Northern California campaign chairman.
The Kennedy-Johnson ticket easily won in Louisiana that year.
After his dismissal by Long, Bankston began his work for Democratic candidates and causes, having worked to deliver Louisiana's then ten electoral votes for the Kennedy-Johnson ticket.
John Kennedy then returned to his suite to announce the Kennedy-Johnson ticket to his closest supporters and Northern political bosses.
Mr. Vidal said that he ran ahead of the Kennedy-Johnson ticket by about 20,000 votes in his district.
In one of them he talks about the similarity between the Kennedy-Johnson ticket of 1960 and the Dukakis-Bentsen ticket of 1988.
In 1960, he was a delegate at the Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles, which assembled the Kennedy-Johnson ticket.