Truman had been kept so ignorant of critical policy issues that he was only informed about the Manhattan Project upon taking the chief executive office. “In Truman's 82 days as vice president ...

John Adams called the vice presidency "the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived." Another vice president, John Nance Garner, was famously ...

For incumbents running for president while still in office, the story is quite different. Throughout U.S. history, a number of incumbent vice presidents have unsuccessfully sought the Oval Office.

the first and second vice president of the United States. Adams called the vice presidency "the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived." ...