How 8 Vice Presidents Made a Living After Leaving Office
Fifteen sitting vice presidents have become president. That leaves a lot of other ex-veeps in need of gainful employment. Here's what a few of them did after leaving office.
Fifteen sitting vice presidents have become president. That leaves a lot of other ex-veeps in need of gainful employment. Here's what a few of them did after leaving office.
Long before he was Calvin Coolidge’s vice president, Charles Dawes wrote an instrumental piece called “Melody in A Major” that later became a #1 hit.
Roosevelt launched one of his most famous sayings at the Minnesota State Fair in September 1901—just two weeks before he became president.
When the Declaration of Independence was signed in 1776, both 'pursuit' and 'happiness' had secondary definitions that change the meaning of the iconic quote.
You probably remember Barack Obama’s “Yes, We Can.” But do you remember Herbert Hoover’s campaign slogan? How about FDR’s?
America's seventh president has been on the $20 bill for less time than you might assume.
Unwilling to leave his ill wife's side during a presidential campaign, William McKinley decided to run for president from his front porch.
In his famous 1858 speech, Abraham Lincoln warned that only civil war would resolve the issue of slavery in the U.S. He wasn’t wrong.
These future presidents worked some not-so-glamorous jobs as teenagers.
Presidents have had a lot of titles and nicknames, but the wife of every president has one common honorific. Why do we call her “first lady”?
In researching his latest book, ‘The Year of Living Constitutionally,’ author A.J. Jacobs came across some bizarre suggestions floated by members of the Constitutional Convention for the new United States government.
An anonymous letter supposedly from a member of a secret society claimed that Franklin Pierce was involved in treasonous activities against the American government—an accusation that infuriated the former president.
In 2002, the two powerful world leaders were invited to settle their differences the old-fashioned way: Combat.
People are still torn over the belief that the ninth president died of pneumonia after not wearing a coat to his inauguration.
John Tyler was born in 1790. He took office in 1841, after William Henry Harrison died. And he has one living grandchild.
How a largely forgotten U.S. president became a South American idol.
From doubt over Shakespeare’s existence to Lincoln’s assassination, conspiracy theories have been around for centuries.
The apostrophe in Presidents Day—or President's Day or Presidents's Day—is all over the place ... or nowhere to be found at all.
From the obscure (“American Fabius") to the sports-related (“Barry O'Bomber”), here are just a few of the most colorful presidential nicknames.
Listen to inaugural addresses and other speeches from each president from John F. Kennedy to Barack Obama.
George Washington's preferred eggnog recipe calls for four kinds of booze—and none of them in small quantities.
in the 1980s, Springfield was home to a subterranean labyrinth made up of cheese wheels.
Who, if anybody, deserves a place alongside George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln and Teddy Roosevelt on the famous monument?
After a sweet plea from her husband not to change her looks, the first lady was careful about how she presented herself in pictures.