The most famous comment about the US Vice Presidency was uttered by John Nance Garner, a tough Texan who was FDR’s VP for his first two terms:
“The vice presidency ain’t worth a bucket of warm spit.”
You can hit the link for the background to that colourful phrase, including the usual debates as to exactly how it was phrased and when it was said. Incidentally the link states that Garner was the one who first turned the office into a bit of a powerhouse, helping FDR get his policies through the House and Senate, but then Garner came from being Speaker of the House, the most powerful political position in the US aside from the Presidency.
Other VP’s would try the same stunt, notably another man from the rough and barren Texas lands, LBJ, who fell into the job with Kennedy’s 1960 Presidential win. LBJ imagined the VP becoming…
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