Despite being only one degree away from the presidency, the Vice President of the United States has long been viewed as an inauspicious position.

History's Most Surprising Vice President Picks

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D espite being only one degree away from the presidency, the Vice President of the United States has long been viewed as an inauspicious position. John Adams called it "the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived." But the Vice President is one step of succession away from the Oval Office, and that simple fact lends weight to the selection. That weight can, in turn, make for some surprising results.

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