What do the following men and women have in common?
Thomas Marshall
John Kern
Calvin Coolidge
Charles Bryan
Frank Knox
John Bricker
Earl Warren
William Miller
Spiro Agnew
Geraldine Ferraro
Sarah Palin
Each was his or her party’s nominee for vice president in the past 100 years (or will be this year) without an established national reputation. One became President, on the death of President Harding and [...]
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