low energy partners….
Vice President Dick Cheney, his chief of staff, Scooter Libby, and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld talk outside the Pentagon briefing room in September 2002. (David Hume Kennerly/Getty)
Modern vice presidents can trace much of their political influence to the broad reforms that Jimmy Carter and Walter Mondale made to the second-highest elected office in the late 1970s.
Backgrounder by Jonathan Masters
Last updated August 4, 2020
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