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John
Nance Garner - 32nd Vice President
Party: Democrat
Term:March 4, 1933 - Jan 20, 1941
Age at Inauguration: 64
Life Span: Nov 22, 1868 - Nov 7, 1967 [97]
President:Franklin Roosevelt |
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- John Garner was called Cactus Jack
and often invited fellow congressmen to his office for drinks
and poker
- A former Speaker of the House he once
stated taking the vice presidency was "the worst damn fool
mistake I ever made"
- He served two terms with Roosevelt
but declined to run for a third term and encouraged FDR to do
the same saying he wouldn't vote for his own brother for a third
term
- He refused to socialize on the Washington
scene and said the vice presidency was an eight to five job,
the rest
of the day was his
- Garner is most noted for saying the
vice presidency wasn't worth "a warm bucket of spit,"
although reporters allegedly changed the spelling of the last
word for print
- On his ninety-fifth birthday he received
a congratulatory call from President Kennedy who was in Texas
that day,
November 22, 1963
- Garner had told the president he hoped
he would stay in office forever, but Kennedy was killed later
that day
Presidential Assassinations
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