Officially, the Constitution assigned the vice president only two jobs. The first was serving as presiding officer of the Senate, where the VP has the power to cast tie-breaking votes. The second ...

Another vice president, John Nance Garner, was famously quoted as saying it wasn't "worth a bucket of warm spit" (though his exact phrase remains in dispute). Yet vice presidents, who are first in ...

The American Vice President tells the little-known story of the second-highest office in the land, tracing its evolution from a constitutional afterthought to a position of political consequence.

The Vice President of the United States shall be President of the Senate, but shall have no Vote, unless they be equally divided. The only regular responsibility that the Constitutional Convention ...

Another vice president, John Nance Garner, was famously quoted as saying it wasn't "worth a bucket of warm spit" (though his exact phrase remains in dispute). Yet vice presidents, who are first in ...