CSPAN2 Second Best July 2, 2017
Your nomination to run and serve as Vice President of United States of america. [cheers and applause] in my book i make the argument that the rights of the american vice presidency really began in what i described as the rise of the modern vice presidency. Everything else i consider the premodern vice presidency, and i trace the modern vice presidency toward harding decision to invite Calvin Coolidge to be a member of the cabinet and to sit with the cabinet. No president had done that before. Not that there were not vice presidency meetings occasionally like it would be with other cabinet memb...