Interchangeability Quotes
After James Garfield became the Republican nominee for President, the defeated Conkling, refusing to run for Vice President, was asked whom he personally favored to run as vice-president with Garfield. Conkling replied:. President Garfield was assassinated six months later, and Arthur became the 21st President, to Conkling's dismay and chagrin. Compare Lyndon Johnson's "Power is where power goes."