Actually, I have something from my American History textbook by Joseph R. Conlin that talks about the Vice-Presidency. I think it's kind of funny.
The vice president's only constitutional functions are to preside over the Senate, casting the deciding vote when the Senate is divided evenly, and to step in if the president dies, resigns, or is removed from office. No ambitious politician has ever been happy in the post. John Adams called the vice presidency "the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived." When Theodore Roosevelt was nominated for the job in 1900, he feared that his political career had come to an end. John Nance Garner, vice president between 1933 and 1941, said the job wasn't "worth a pitcher of warm spit." Finley Peter Dune, who wrote a popular newspaper column in Irish America dialect at the turn of the twentieth century, summed it up: "Th' vice-presidincy is th' next highest an' the lowest. It isn't a crime exactly. Ye can't be sint to jail f-r it, but it's a kind iv a disgrace."
I think Thomas Jefferson was also bitching about the job when he was Vice-President, too.
