As the country waits to see who the GOP Vice-Presidential nominee will be this year,  I thought it might be enlightening to take a glimpse into the lives of the men who have served as Vice-Presidents.  The late comedian Rodney Dangerfield’s famous tag line was ‘I get no respect.’ The same may be said of the occupants of the office of our nation’s Second-in-Command.  Over the last 220 years, 47 men have held the office.    John Adams, our nation’s first ‘Second-in-Command,’ was quoted as saying: “I am Vice President and in this I am nothing.” John Nance Garner, who occupied the office...

It is early in the presidential primary season.  The Republican Party is split between two front runners.  A trusted confidante of both men has taken a sabbatical to Europe to regain his health.  During his trip abroad, he must determine for whom he would work for.  The future of the Republican Party and the outcome of the presidential election is dependent on this man’s decision. Is this scenario taking place in 2012?  No, it is happening in 1912.  The two GOP front runners are former president Theodore Roosevelt and his hand-picked successor in 1908, the reluctant but dutiful William Howard Taft.  Throughout his adult life,...