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To: libstripper

“...Bill Clinton is musing about the possibility that the vice presidency might be his wife’s best path to the presidency if she loses the nomination....”

and how many VPs have gone on to become president lately??
Just one I can think of even remotely recently, Lyndon B. Johnson, after an asssination of, a Kennedy Keep musing, Bubba. After all, promotion by death is a Clinton theme.


17 posted on 05/24/2008 6:04:37 AM PDT by rod1
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To: rod1
and how many VPs have gone on to become president lately?? Just one I can think of even remotely recently...


20 posted on 05/24/2008 6:07:44 AM PDT by new cruelty
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To: rod1

Bush 1


63 posted on 05/24/2008 6:53:02 AM PDT by j_tull (Massachusetts, the Gay State. Once leader of the American Revolution, now leading its demise.)
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To: rod1

“and how many VPs have gone on to become president lately??
Just one I can think of even remotely recently, Lyndon B. Johnson”

How about George Bush?


68 posted on 05/24/2008 6:55:17 AM PDT by enough_idiocy (Holding my nose in 2008. I disagree with McCain on lots of issue, but with the Democrats on more.)
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To: rod1
... and how many VPs have gone on to become president lately??

LBJ, Ford, & Bush (Sr.).

98 posted on 05/24/2008 7:28:10 AM PDT by BluH2o
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To: rod1
Nixon, too, but not immediately after his VP-term. And Truman.

-PJ

141 posted on 05/24/2008 10:41:03 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too (Repeal the 17th amendment -- it's the "Fairness Doctrine" for Congress!)
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