Word: postmastership
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...every Vice President since John Adams has known, the nation's second highest office is a dispiriting post only slightly preferable to a rural postmastership (see box preceding page). "The Vice President of the United States," said Thomas R. Marshall, Vice President under Woodrow Wilson, "is like a man in a cataleptic state: he cannot speak; he cannot move; he suffers no pain; and yet he is perfectly conscious of everything that is going on about him." Agnew on the subject: "It's a sort of ancillary job where you're not in the mainstream of anything. The job itself...
...Worcester there's another guy. He's like a first cousin to me for 40 years. How would you like to be shaked like that when he comes and says he's not with you? How do you like that? He says they promised him the postmastership in Worcester." Concluded Knocko: "It's pressure, pressure, pressure, post office, post office, post office...