“[Robert] Caro’s best but most controversial piece of evidence [that Lyndon Johnson would be replaced on the 1964 ticket] is the 1968 book by JFK’s former secretary, Evelyn Lincoln.
“Lincoln wrote that in mid-November of 1963 JFK said at her desk that ‘there might be a change in the ticket.’
“A week later, JFK told Lincoln that he was thinking about North Carolina Gov. Terry Sanford, she recalled, adding that the president told her: ‘But it will not be Lyndon’…
“Tom Lambeth, a Sanford gubernatorial aide, recalled last week that he heard the chatter. He even said he can think back to the day he picked up another Sanford aide, Skipper Bowles (the father of Erskine) at the airport after Bowles had been to the White House.
“ ‘Bowles said something about the idea that Terry might be the VP,’ Lambeth recalls.
“But Lambeth, now 77, said neither Sanford nor Sanford’s staff thought it would come to fruition….”
— From “Caro revives Kennedy-Johnson feud” by Jonathan Martin and John F. Harris at Politico (May 13, 2012)