For the record - Oct. 3, 2008
Vice presidency: An Op-Ed article Wednesday on doing away with the office of vice president indicated that President Lincoln’s motive for choosing his second-term running mate, Andrew Johnson, was to carry Tennessee. In fact, his motive was to attract votes from the border states; Tennessee was contested between the Confederacy and the Union; it was not counted in the Union presidential election.
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