The Cheney precedent: Will Ryan serve as ‘assistant president’?

By Editor on August 20, 2012   Columnists, COMMENTARY, Exclusives, LIFE, Sol Sanders, Stateside, Top Stories, U.S. Politics  

Sol W. Sanders   Jack Garner, a Texan whom Franklin Delano Roosevelt chose as his first vice president for “balance,” put it succinctly: The vice presidency was “not worth a bucket of warm p–” (later cleaned up to “spit”). But Garner, ironically enough, helped block FDR’s power grab when that most charismatic of presidents tried […]