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- From: pat@sphinx.phys.Virginia.EDU (pat walsh)
- Subject: Re: Have some respect
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.153543.9777@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
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- Organization: University of Virginia Physics Department
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 15:35:43 GMT
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- Edward J. Branley writes:
-
- >llama@pooh.cc.utexas.edu (sine nomine) writes:
-
- >> Edward J. Branley (elendil@mintir.new-orleans.la.us) wrote:
- >>
- >> : Danoe is history, and will most likely never hold another national
- >> : office.
- >>
- >> i've been wondering about this. people seem to be assuming that dan'll
- >> just hop right back into elective office, but it doesn't seem like too
- >> many ex-veep's have done that (i haven't researched it; does anyone
- >> have any stats about what vice-presidents generally *do* when they
- >> have to leave office?). once you've held the second-highest office in
- >> the land (well, in theory it is), can you really go back to a lesser
- >> office without losing face? assuming you have any left to lose, that is.
- >>
- >> it must be weird for quayle to be kind of obsolete at such an early
- >> age...
- >>
- >> --
- >> sine nomine | debbie martinson
- >> what's red and invisible?
- >> no tomatoes.
-
- >I think that a senator who becomes veep could probably easily return to the
- >Senate without losing face, since the Senate is regarded as the 'world's
- >greatest deliberative body.' However, I just can't see Danoe getting elected
- >to anything ever again, not because he was veep, but because he's Dan. After
- >the revelations of just how stupid Our Boy is, he'll probably do better on the
- >right-wing lecture circuit.
-
- As a matter of fact, Hubert Humphrey, a former U.S. Senator from Minnesota,
- returned to the Senate a few years after serving as Lyndon Johnson's veep and
- then losing the '68 presidential race to Nixon. The Senate even created a
- new (strictly ceremonial) position for him -- Deputy President Pro Tem, I think
- it was. I'm not aware of any other Vice Presidents, at least in recent times,
- who later returned to lesser offices (though I think there's room for debate
- as to whether a Senate seat, which can actually carry considerable power,
- really is a "lesser" office than the vice presidency). As for Danoe, I tend
- to think you're right; he'll probably try running again, but unless the good
- people of Indiana generously decide to supply the rest of us with some more
- laughs, I don't see much of a future for him in it.
-
- - Patrick Walsh
- University of Virginia Department of Physics
- pw@virginia.bitnet, pw@virginia.edu, pat@gomez.phys.virginia.edu
-