[Lonesome in Massachussets]

There was an excellent PBS presentation on Garfield, a truly outstanding individual. When Chester A. Arthur, the New York Republican machine vice-president, who was placed on the ticket to placate the New York machine, succeeded him, Roscoe Conklin thought his ship had come in. But Arthur was so moved by the example of Garfield, that he blunted the corrupt Conklin’s efforts and tried to run an honest administration.

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/garfield-chapter1/#:~:text=In%20July%201881%2C%20James%20Garfield,lack%20of%20proper%20sanitary%20measures.

[Chad_the_Impaler]

Roscoe Conklin is the female police officer in the first season of Reacher. I think you mean Roscoe Conkling.

[Wallace T.]

Chester Arthur was not a natural born citizen by the definition used by the framers of the Constitution, a native born person of U.S. citizen parents. His father, a native of Ireland, was not a U.S. citizen at the time of Arthur's birth. There is also a claim that Arthur was actually born in Canada and not Vermont, as the official narrative states. Thus was the precedent set for Barack Obama over a century later and Kamala Harris after him.

[Steven Scharf]

When Chester A. Arthur, the New York Republican machine vice-president, who was placed on the ticket to placate the New York machine, succeeded him

I did not know this piece, but 20 years later the New York politicos wanted to get rid of Theodore Roosevelt and did the same thing. It turned out to be a good deal for Roosevelt.

Back than the only thing a VP did was wait for the president to die (and preside over the senate if there was a tie).

[Carry_Okie]

Roscoe Conkling was the crook who helped draft the citizenship clause of the 14th Amendment by which corporations eventually gained Constitutional rights equal to citizens. You can read about that here.