Not to say LBJ couldn’t have done it, but what in the world was JFK thinking when he chose LBJ as his VP? Obama was smart enough not to choose Hillary for obvious reasons. We’re talking Democrats and their lust for power, after all.
I think Kennedy, a north easterner, was looking for southern votes when he pick LBJ for VP, it couldn’t be because he liked him.
I read all 3 volumes of Robert Caro’s biography of LBJ. I never had an opinion one way or the other about whether LBJ had Kennedy killed or not. But somewhere during the reading of those books a light came on that told me he was responsible. Caro doesn’t say that but he shows you how desperate LBJ was to be president and how he knew he would never get there unless................ JFK died in office.
It was offered to him as a basic courtesy... they never believed he would give up the Majority Leader position for the mostly powerless VP slot. They expected LBJ would turn it down and their preference of Missouri Senator Stuart Symington would be it.