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Re: When did the Vice Presidency become an important position?

« on: February 27, 2010, 08:44:37 PM »

When Nixon made it one. Rockefeller, Mondale and Cheney are the only Vice Presidents with significant policy roles, however.

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Re: When did the Vice Presidency become an important position?

« Reply #1 on: February 28, 2010, 12:58:22 AM »

Barkley had no influence at all. He wasn't kept in the dark the way prior Vice Presidents were (because of Truman's experiences), but he was very much a Biden-type figure. He only got the nomination because no other Democrat would take it.

Marshall had even less of a role than Vice Presidents before him, as they were the administration's liaison with Congress, a role Wilson disposed with.

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