AS the recent HBO miniseries on his life revealed, John Adams was one of our most quotable Founding Fathers. Here’s a remark he made about his vice presidency (both on television and in real life): “My country has in its wisdom contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived.”
It’s hard to envision a straight-faced Dick Cheney saying the same thing. A pundit probably wouldn’t, either, if only because it might let the air out of what is bound to be this summer’s easiest political-discussion starter: Whom will John McCain and Barack Obama pick for running mates?
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