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In your opinion who do you think was the greatest VP of all time?
In your opinion who do you think was the greatest VP of all time?
In your opinion who do you think was the greatest VP of all time?
Where's Biden?
He keeps me laughing, he wins. Also, he can really rock aviators.
This. One, VPs don't do much, relatively. And I take the question to mean only as VP, not anything else they may have done either before or after.To be honest, I don't even know how to weigh a VP's performance.
Ford is my choice. He was the level head needed at the time. I mean that as VP as well as President. He went out of his way to be a stabilizing force... as much as could be done... while VP. His work as VP is pretty much unrecognized today, and his Presidency is very underrated.Ford-kept the country together and put that ahead of winning an election
I am not just judging them as a VP because until the last couple of decades, VP's didn't really do anything. Judging them from their entire life in politics, of those listed I would have to say Teddy Roosevelt. No other president embodied the American spirit more than he did. Moreover, if it were not for him (and later LBJ), we would have no great swaths of untouched land left in this country. Instead we would have the tended garden type preserves one finds in Europe, not the true wilderness we have preserved here.
""The farther one gets into the wilderness, the greater is the attraction of its lonely freedom." ---Teddy Roosevelt
This was my backyard where I grew up (Ouachita National Forest) and it was entirely the doing of Teddy Roosevelt:
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What other VP or President has impacted our lives that much?
In your opinion who do you think was the greatest VP of all time?
I'm reading Kern's dual biography of Roosevelt and Taft right now. Excellent book if you haven't read it already. Sagamore Hill is about a 20 minute drive from my home on Long Island. When the renovations on it are done this spring I'm planning to visit.
I read this a few years ago. It is a bit tedious though:
Amazon.com: T.R.: The Last Romantic (9780465069590): H. W. Brands: Books
This is a really good one though:
http://www.amazon.com/The-River-Doubt-Theodore-Roosevelts/dp/0767913736
In your opinion who do you think was the greatest VP of all time?
Not that I would pick him, but surprised Nixon isn't on the list.
Nixon served IKE well as he did the nation as VP especially during IKE heart attacks. One has to remember VP Nixon was not like the vindictive President Nixon of 8 years later.