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The Vances are the youngest family to occupy the vice presidency since Al Gore’s young children lived at the Naval Observatory.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 20, 2026

“He was not a very powerful vice president, but that’s because Donald Trump didn’t want him to be,” said Christopher Devine, a University of Dayton professor who’s published four books on the vice presidency.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 12, 2025

Having once dismissed the vice presidency as “a cruddy job,” Cheney, who served under Bush for two terms beginning in 2001, set out to make it count.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 4, 2025

Just over a century later, Teddy Roosevelt said of the vice presidency, “I certainly do not want to hold a position of titular dignity and of no earthly practical importance for four years.”

From Salon • Sep. 5, 2025

It was difficult to think of the ever-combative, highly combustible champion of the American Revolution as extraneous and invisible, but that is what the vice presidency had made him.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis