Comments on: Three Things I Didn’t Know About The Vice Presidency

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 21:34:03 +0000

Dallas is a great-great uncle/grandfather… something in my family. I’ve always heard that the city of Dallas, TX was named after him. I couldn’t tell you why though.

By: Jason

Jason — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 02:36:51 +0000

As fictional Vice President John Hoynes once (almost) said, “The total tonnage of what I don’t know could stun a team of oxen in its tracks.”

You guys are not positioning yourselves very well as a support group.

By: gjd

gjd — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 02:22:20 +0000

I’m also astonished you had not heard of Elbridge Gerry.

By: Warner Todd Huston

Warner Todd Huston — Sun, 18 Feb 2007 14:12:46 +0000

Did you know that William Rufus King (VP to Pierce) was sworn in down in Cuba, then went to his home in Alabama and promptly died never having set foot in Washington as VP?

Also, FDR’s first VP, “Cactus Jack” Garner once said that the vice presidency wasn’t worth a warm bucket of spit…. though everyone is SURE he said shit and the papers cleaned up his often colorful rhetoric!

By: Jason

Jason — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 20:05:02 +0000

He’s new to me. Admitting that was cathartic.

By: Nick

Nick — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 20:02:25 +0000

Haven’t heard of Elbridge Gerry? Really? He was in both the Continental Congress and the Constitutional Convention. More importantly, he’s the guy for whom “gerrymander” was named. (Granted, I might not have known he was VP, but just sayin’…)