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...years, politicians have been recalling the late John Nance Garner's observation that the vice presidency "isn't worth a pitcher of warm spit."* Apparently, being a candidate for the office is not so hot either. "I can assure you that having been 'considered' for the job in 1968 and having been 'considered' for it again in 1974," Republican Senator Howard Baker Jr. said last week, "I'm the world's leading authority on the proposition that that's the most helpless position in politics that...
...Actually, Garner said that the office "isn't worth a pitcher of warm piss." After his retirement, he complained that "those pantywaist writers wouldn't print it the way I said...
...jealousy or pure inattention, U.S. Presidents have seldom used or even properly broken in their Vice Presidents. John Nance Garner, who served from 1933 to 1941 under Franklin Roosevelt, described the job as "a spare tire on the automobile of Government." Almost every modern President promised that he would upgrade the vice presidency and exploit fully the talents of the man who occupied the post. None succeeded...
...professors are by and large not big guns. They tend to be non-tenured people at Harvard and not-too-famous people from elsewhere who want to see Harvard, do research at Widener, or impress a department enough to garner a job offer. They get one-fifth of their regular academic-year salary if they teach a full course-load...
...honor makes Lowell the only poet besides Robert Frost to garner the Pulitzer Prize twice. He first won the prize in 1947 for "Lord Weary's Castle...