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There is no ritual Nunc Dimittis for a departing Vice President of the U. S. Those who imagined that farewelling John Nance Garner might write one misread his bad-prosy character. Last week, when ...
John Adams called the vice presidency "the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived.". Another vice president, John Nance Garner, was ...
Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s first running mate John Nance Garner once famously declared that the vice president’s office was “not worth a bucket of warm piss.” In the first and only VP ...
To the editor — John Nance Garner, vice president, 1933-41, appraised the job, "... not worth a bucket of warm spit." Mark Z. Barabak, correspondent in 10 presidential campaigns, predicts, ...
John Nance Garner famously quipped that the vice presidency "is not worth a bucket of warm spit!" Yet despite that less than glowing description from President Franklin D. Roosevelt's first ...
John Adams called the vice presidency "the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived.". Another vice president, John Nance Garner, was ...
Another vice president, John Nance Garner, was famously quoted as saying it wasn't "worth a bucket of warm spit" (though his exact phrase remains in dispute). Yet vice presidents, who are first in ...