The Liberal Democrats also renominated their general election candidate, Robert Woodthorpe Browne.

After Mr. Dole gave his resignation speech in Washington on Wednesday, he flew to Chicago for a quick and celebratory thrust to the city where Democrats will renominate President Clinton this summer.

The Democrats renominated Beckham without opposition in 1920.

The circumstances are vastly different from the last time the Democrats renominated their President, Jimmy Carter, in New York in 1980.

Because of this apostasy, the Democrats did not renominate Heflin for the Senate in 1930.

The nuttiest convention occurred at Atlantic City in 1964 where Democrats renominated President Johnson.

(We're not counting the campaigns of 1964, 1980 and 1996, when the Democrats renominated an incumbent president.)

The Democrats renominated former President Cleveland, making the 1892 election a rematch of the one four years earlier.

The Republicans' shouting would be to no avail, as the Democrats, due to the deepening international crisis, renominated Roosevelt for an unprecedented third term.

In 1956, the Democrats did not renominate Sparkman for vice president, opting instead for U.S. Senator Estes Kefauver of neighboring Tennessee.