How the vice presidency went from an 'insignificant office' to a political powerhouse

Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen LTC Eugene Chu MSgt Michael Bischoff MSG Stan Hutchison MSgt Steve Sweeney 1SG (Join to see) SGT Charlie Lee CPL LaForest Gray SrA John Monette John Adams called the vice presidency "the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived."

Another vice president, John Nance Garner, was famously quoted as saying it wasn't "worth a bucket of warm spit" (though his exact phrase remains in dispute).