In Baltimore, USLP candidate Debra Freeman appealed openly to racist and anti-Semitic sentiments in her 1978 campaign against incumbent Congressman Parren Mitchell, chairman of the Black Congressional Caucus.

In a 1974 interview, the USLP candidate for Governor of Michigan said that the Watergate scandal was a " deliberate attempt " to discredit Richard Nixon and weaken the presidency.

USLP member Harley Schlanger, a candidate for the House of Representative, sued the Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, ABC liquor board in August 1976, for prohibiting campaigning on their property, which he contended was public property.

In May 1978, USLP Steering Committee member Elliott Eisenberg campaigned in a Chicago suburb, saying that " the reason we picked Schaumburg is because it's a relatively conservative area ...

The USLP predicted collapse of the monetary system by November 1976 and thermonuclear war by 1977.

Following the election, the USLP brought lawsuits in three states challenging Carter's victory.

" Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen wrote that the USLP began " on the political left but has since gone so far in the opposite direction that to call it politically right is to slander the entire conservative movement.

During the Senate's confirmation hearings, LaRouche appeared on behalf of the USLP as a witness against Rockefeller's nomination.

On November 1, the eve of the election, the USLP purchased a half hour block of time on NBC, the first of many national broadcasts by LaRouche that would follow in election years to come.

LaRouche critic and biographer Dennis King says that when the USLP sponsored LaRouche's 1976 campaign, the NCLC was still in transition from a far-left to far-right ideology but by 1977-78 both organizations ( which were really one and the same for all essential purposes ) were advocating extreme-right positions.

In 1978, LaRouche began a vigorous USLP campaign for the presidency in 1980, targeting farmers, small businessmen and Teamsters Union members in the Heartland states.

The USLP also had brief contact with the Liberty Lobby led by Willis Carto.

King described a typical post-transition USLP campaign in Lyndon LaRouche and the New American Fascism ( Doubleday, 1989 ):

The same month the USLP hired a former OSS and CIA operative, mercenary, firearms engineer and arms dealer, Colonel Mitch WerBell, to protect LaRouche.

The U. S. Labor Party ( USLP ) was a political party formed in 1973 by the National Caucus of Labor Committees ( NCLC ).

Meanwhile, Douglas was selected as the candidate of the Northern Democrats, with Herschel Vespasian Johnson as the vice-presidential candidate.

During the 2008 United States presidential election, she branded the Republican Party vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin as " stupid " and a " disgrace to women ".

Jarrett stated that the former Republican vice-presidential candidate is " continuing to draw huge crowds while she's promoting her brand-new book ", adding that the images being shown were " some of the pictures just coming in to us ....

Tonie Nathan, running as the Libertarian Party's vice-presidential candidate in the 1972 Presidential Election with John Hospers as the presidential candidate, was the first female candidate in the United States to win an electoral vote.

" However, the abuse went both ways, as historian William Manchester noted: " above all, he should never have been subjected to the accusation of Henry Wallace, FDR's new vice-presidential candidate, that Willkie was the Nazis ' choice.

The Libertarian Party nominated Andre Marrou, former Alaska representative and the Party's 1988 vice-presidential candidate, for President.

Each party intended to manipulate the results by having some of their electors cast one vote for the intended presidential candidate and one vote for somebody besides the intended vice-presidential candidate, leaving their vice-presidential candidate a few votes shy of their presidential candidate.

Hamilton, in his third sabotage attempt towards Adams, schemed to elect vice-presidential candidate Charles Cotesworth Pinckney to the presidency.

The Federalists, therefore, arranged for one of their electors to vote for John Jay rather than for vice-presidential candidate Pinckney.

Johnson was ideally suited to run as a vice-presidential candidate with Lincoln in 1864.

Roosevelt's efforts to reform New York politics-including Republican politics-led Platt and other state GOP leaders to pressure President McKinley to accept Roosevelt as his new vice-presidential candidate, thus filling the spot left open when Vice-President Garret Hobart died in 1899.

Since conservatives in the Republican Party denounced Theodore Roosevelt as a radical, they were allowed to choose the vice-presidential candidate.

Roosevelt, who personally liked Wallace and knew little about Truman, reluctantly agreed to accept Truman as his vice-presidential candidate to preserve party unity.

He was buried in Lexington Cemetery, and Theodore Frelinghuysen, Clay's vice-presidential candidate in the election of 1844, gave the eulogy.

Ferraro, a United States vice-presidential candidate in 1984, was a married woman who used her birth surname professionally rather than her husband's (" Zaccaro ").

In June 2004, Camejo campaigned for the vice-presidential spot beside two-time Green Party presidential candidate Ralph Nader as independents, running against the Green Party nominee.

As a conservative Republican, in the 2008 election, she campaigned for vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin and expressed her concern for what she perceived as a decidedly liberal bias in the media as a guest on the Fox News Channel show Huckabee on October 25, 2008, and on the CNN show Larry King Live on October 28, 2008.

A member of the Libertarian Party, Ruwart campaigned unsuccessfully for the party's presidential nomination in 1984 and for the vice-presidential nomination in 1992.

* Mary Ruwart, a member of the Libertarian Party, Ruwart campaigned unsuccessfully for the party's presidential nomination in 1984 and 2008 and for the vice-presidential nomination in 1992.

Siew is the former chairman of the Chung-Hua Institution for Economic Research ( Siew submitted his resignation June 24, 2007 after his KMT vice-presidential nomination ) and the incumbent Chairman of the Cross-Straits Common Market Foundation.

On June 23, 2007, ending weeks of speculation, Ma formally introduced Siew to be his vice-presidential running mate.

* José Laurel, Jr., ( August 27, 1912-March 18, 1998 ) Member of the Philippine National Assembly from Batangas from 1943 to 1944, Congressman from Batangas ' Third District from 1941 to 1957 and from 1961 to 1972, Speaker of the House of Representatives of the Philippines from 1954 to 1957 and from 1967 to 1971, Assemblyman of Regular Batasang Pambansa from 1984 to 1986, Member of the Philippine Constitutional Commission of 1986 from June 2 to October 15, 1986 and a running-mate of Carlos P. Garcia of the Nacionalista Party in Philippine presidential election of 1957, placed second in the vice-presidential race against Diosdado Macapagal of Liberal Party ( Philippines )

On June 6, 2008, the show featured an hour-long special with British band Coldplay, on December 9 an hour-long special with actor Tom Cruise and on December 31, 2008 ran a New Year's Eve special featuring an interview with former vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin.

In the vice-presidential race, Senator Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo won a six-year term as Vice President also by a landslide victory.

Vice President Gustavo Noboa took charge by vice-presidential decree ; Mahuad went on national television in the morning to endorse Noboa as his successor.

In 2006 Kemp, along with 2004 vice-presidential nominee John Edwards, co-chaired the Council on Foreign Relations task force on Russia, producing a document called " Russia ’ s Wrong Direction: What the United States Can and Should Do ".

He also provided the narration for a video biography of Alaska governor Sarah Palin, the Republican vice-presidential nominee, that appeared on McCain's campaign website.

Jackson had already been nominated by several state legislatures, following the pattern of 1824 and 1828, but his worry was that the various state parties would not unite on a vice-presidential nominee.

Pierce and running mate William R. King went on to win what was at the time one of the nation's largest electoral victories, trouncing Scott and his vice-presidential nominee, William Alexander Graham of North Carolina, 254 electoral votes to 42.

Kennedy offered Johnson the vice-presidential nomination at the Los Angeles Biltmore Hotel at 10: 15 a. m. on July 14, 1960, the morning after being nominated for president.

In between these two presidential bids, Senator Humphrey was part of the free-for-all for the vice-presidential nomination at the 1956 Democratic National Convention, where he received 134 votes on the first ballot and 74 on the second.

Kennedy offered Johnson the vice-presidential nomination at the Los Angeles Biltmore Hotel at 10: 15 a. m. on July 14, 1960, the morning after being nominated for president.

The RPR depended on FN support to win presidencies in some regional councils, and the FN won vice-presidential posts in four regions.

Much of the newspaper speculation about who would run as the party's vice-presidential candidate centered on Indiana Senator Benjamin Shively.

" Disappointed, Dunn said that he still had to file a story on the vice-presidential nomination, and then added: " I believe I'll write a piece about old Uncle Adlai.

Robinson had been the vice-presidential candidate in 1928 on the Democratic ticket opposite Hoover.

She appeared on Saturday Night Live on October 4, 2008, as moderator Gwen Ifill impersonator in a comedic sketch depicting the recent vice-presidential debate.

He has a well-known habit of logging his daily activities on color-coded notebooks, which some say may have cost him a spot on past vice-presidential tickets.

In July 2000, shortly before the Republican National Convention in Philadelphia, Bush campaign sources said Elizabeth Dole was on the short list to be named the vice-presidential nominee, along with Michigan Governor John Engler, New York Governor George Pataki, Pennsylvania Governor Tom Ridge, and former Missouri Senator John Danforth.

Notwithstanding this party disbanded after the war ended, with the result that Republican Lincoln was succeeded by Democrat Johnson ; the states began to place candidates for President and Vice-President together on the same ballot ticket-thus making it impossible to vote for a presidential candidate from one party and a vice-presidential candidate from another party, as had previously been possible.

A few years later, in 1971 and 1973, Burger was on Nixon's short list of vice-presidential replacements for Vice President Spiro Agnew, along with John Connally, Ronald Reagan, and Nelson Rockefeller.

The parties were unable to reach agreement on dates for other presidential debates and for vice-presidential debates, though both candidates provided televised statements on February 28.

Bentsen did not organize effectively on a national level, and many observers believed the freshman senator was running without any real hope of winning the nomination, hoping instead to secure a vice-presidential nomination.

In the 2004 United States presidential election, he was selected by independent candidate Ralph Nader as his vice-presidential running mate on a ticket which had the endorsement of the Reform Party.