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Insignificant office that ever the imagination of man could conceive. Up next, jewel goldstein talks about the history of the vice resident ian argues the office has grown in importance, especially over the last man who held the position. This is one hour. Good evening. The timing for tonight programming is precious as we are on the verge of seeing who the current nominees for the presidency will select as their running mates. Some of you picked up copies of an article from the wall street journal as you entered the auditorium on the impact of the Vice President ial nominee on election results. For those of you who didnt, we are having extras and we will. Un them out after the program tonight, we will discuss that only the electoral process, but the evolving role of the vice presidency. We have the honor of hosting professor jewel goldstein, author of a new book about the vice presidency. Dr. Goldstein is a highly respect did scholar of the vice presidency, presidency, and constitution
Prescient, as we are on the thee of finding out who parties will select for the running mates. Some of you picked up copies of an article from the wall street journal recently as you entered the auditorium on the impact of the Vice President ial nominee on election results. For those of you who did not pick up copies, we will have extras after the program. Tonight, we will be discussing not just the electoral process, but the evolving role of the vice presidency. We have the honor of hosting professor joel goldstein, the author of the newly released book, the white house vice presidency from mondale to biden. Dr. Goldstein is a highly respected scholar of the vice presidency, presidency, and constitutional law. He is consistently sought out by Media Outlets for commentary and insight, especially during the president ial campaigns. In a 2012 article in the new york times, he was quoted as saying, my wife says i am an exotic plant that blooms every four years. [laughter] professor goldst
And he recalls his own political career and the historic moments in which he participated. We are in the United States capitol in the senate wing and about to be given a tour by the majority leader himself. Thank you, senator mcconnell for opening up the suite to us. Where are we in the capitol right now . Senator mcconnell we are not in the senate wing, which is further down. We are in the main happen toll. The main government came down from the philadelphia in the summer of 1800, and the capitol looked quite different at that point. The two wings were added right before the civil war during the 1850s. But this particular space, like every space in the capital has , its own history. We do know that during that general period they began to , develop what subsequently came known as the library of congress in this particular space. Its been the office of the republican leader of the senate, whoever that is whether we are , in the majority or minority, since probably the 1950s. But before