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To: fieldmarshaldj

I don’t know but I don’t think anyone cared about VP King. He’s the only Vice President since John Adams never to set foot in Washington during his time in office (he was too ill to make it to the inauguration and was given the oath of office elsewhere).


240 posted on 09/23/2009 8:14:44 AM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: Verginius Rufus

Well, it’s not like he was never there. He was in DC for decades as the Senator from Alabama (he was unusual for the time, more like what we see today of members serving for so long, since many of his contemporaries would serve 6 years or less and go home). Folks in DC at the time considered King and James Buchanan to be, uh, shall we say, virtually husband and wife.


251 posted on 09/23/2009 8:35:46 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps !"~~)
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