The article ran in the N.Y. Slimes, and you REALLY want us to believe that it's "true", especially when the man claims that he doesn't remember exactly?
Washington ran unopposed, so HELL NO, that is NOT how John Addams became his VEEP!
There were no OFFICIAL parties, back then, so yes, that IS how Addams got stuck with that sting POS Jefferson and Jefferson with the even worse POS Burr. After that, this system was completely shoveled onto the dust heap of history, since they all realized that it was not only completely unworkable, but STUPID...in the bleeding extreme! And it was the FFs who killed it and set up our TWO PARTY system, which, if people have a problem with, they can go to the graveyards where these brilliant men are buried and take it up with them. ;^)
Having Hillary as Trump's VEEP is sheer insanity, as is Trump having that traitorous, back stabbing POS, SOB Cruz, as his VEEP.
Anyone can still ask President Reagan’s National Security Advisor, Richard Allen, who WROTE the story if the New York Times edited in a way that detracted from the points he was trying to make.
Don’t kill the messenger.
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For the record: When Washington won the presidential election of 1789 with 69 votes in the electoral college, Adams came in second with 34 votes and he became Vice President; in that capacity, he became under the Constitution the President of the United States Senate.
Other candidates who received Electoral votes were John Jay (9), Robert H. Harrison (6), John Rutledge (6), John Hancock (4), George Clinton (3), Samuel Huntington (2), John Milton (2), James Armstrong (1), Benjamin Lincoln (1), and Edward Telfair (1).
So there were 69 votes for Washington and 69 votes for other candidates.
It wasn’t about the existence of political parties, it was about the accumulation of Electoral votes. The original Constitution said that whoever got the most Electors was the president and whoever finished second was Vice President.
Imagne if that was still the case!