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no. several that i don't think fit in. i haven't decided. >> humphrey who became the vice president after the election in '64 couldn't travel without the president's approval. they rarely gave him a jet. >> i felt he was treated by johnson the way johnson had been treated by kennedy. my understanding is his experience was not a very good one. >> mr. president, he is in the senate dining room. he is coming up. he wanted to talk to you from another telephone. >> i got your note here. nobody is in the room when i talk to you. i read that story. i thought it was my friend talking. i thought you had a severe way of expressing it. i was trying to air it out. >> i didn't either. >> you talk when you ought to have been listening. that's the problem all of us got with dogs and everything else. i read the story. it looked like it came from you and you said, i just caught hell. >> that person is being underutilized. enormous talent is not being tapped. there's a lack of trust there. the other thing is, mischief arises if you have somebody who is sitting down the hall in the west wing who feels as if he is not being treated with respect and consulted on big decisions. >> there have been a lot of vice presidents who weren't happy, partly because they never got the opportunity to do anything. nelson rockefeller hated his experience as vice president. i know because i was chief of staff when he was vice president. he was unhappy completely. jerry ford was vice president for nine months. he told me that was the worst experience of his life. he hated it. most of the time, he was an -- he was on an airplane. in terms of playing a significant policy role, he wasn't there long enough to do very much. >> if you think back about it, jerry ford's position as vice president became very significant because after about nine months, he became president. the only man who was never elected either president or vice president. >> i am acutely aware that you have not elected me as your president by your ballots. >> he never passed up the opportunity to say to me, i don't know why i took that job. it's the worst job i ever had. >> i did not want to be standing around the president looking like an extra on a movie lot. >> you have to be deferential to the cabinet. the cabinet reports to the president. doesn't report to the vice president. you can have debates. when you disagree, as did i with cabinet members, i would take it to the president. i won those debates. stay out of the way, stay back, be his eyes and ears on capitol hill, be a voice around the world. >> there's one person every four years that writes the job description for the vice president. that's the president of the united states. >> you cannot run the white house with people who come into a meeting and try to think about what you want to hear and then tell it to you. if you get that, you might as well have a computer make the decisions. >> when it came to foreign policy, he understood the importance of all the elements in american power, not just our military, but our diplomatic and economic and cultural power and the power of our ideals. >> bob gates, great secretary of defense and a really competent man. wrote about he was angry that biden made the president question the military. i did. because war is too important to be left to generals. ask a military man, can you take that hill? yes, sir, i can take that mountain. that's what they are trained to do. >> i'm vice president. you are the boss. i want to do what i can to help you. i have whideas of miy own. you make the call. >> if there was something i didn't agree with, i would tell him that privately. he had photographs taken inside the nuclear reaction tore that the north koreans had built for the syrians. this was a huge no-no. the north koreans set off their first nuclear device the previous fall. i wanted to take it out militarily. debate raged internally. connie persuaded the president to take it to the united nations. i thought it was a mistake. >> dick's advice was well thought out. never haphazard. i listened carefully. others were more nuanced. >> we had a meeting in the residence. he and i had this conversation privately. he said, dick, go ahead and make your presentation. i did. it was important to take it out. >> his opinions were balanced by others. that's the nature of the presidency. you don't want a homogenous group. you want different points of view. >> i got through and the president asked the assembled multitude, how many of you here agree with dick? 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person is this, why did he pick him or her. >> the vice presidential decision, the decision making process has to be very thorough and very deliberate, because it's the people's chance to see how a person would make decisions as president. >> good evening. george bush has chosen the man he wants to run with him. dan quayle is a junior senator. he is 41 years old which mr. bush sees as part of his appeal. he has the conservative credentials. >> get back to the room. call this number. i called the number. it's jim baker. he says, hang on for the veep. it was george bush. it's 2:00 now. 4:00 we will introduce you. show up at the spanish plaza. where is the spanish plaza? he said something like, i don't really know. this is your first assignment. don't screw it up. >> george bush decided this was the day for the news. >> i said, i have to be there at 4:00 so they can introduce me. i'm driving around there. it's too early. i drive around the block. ten minutes to 4:00 i go to the spanish 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indiana. >> i was talking to my wife. he said, i think i have a good choice at this. the safe choice is bob dole. same generation, same background, no controversy. the bold choice, the different choice would be me. it was very much what eisenhower did when he selected richard nixon. it was a generational choice. >> now it is seen as essentially the nominee's choice to pick his running mate. this is in many ways the most important selection that a president makes. >> i think they modernized the office when they solidified the new stature and standing of the vice president. real estate means a lot in washington. >> when the vice president is distant from the oval office and you have a crisis, there's a difference between a personal presence and a telephone call. if you meet with a foreign leader and the vice president is in a remote office, it's hard for him to find it convenient to be there to sit in on the session, even in an unanticipated way. >> it's hard to be a principle advisor to the president if your office is on capitol hill or even over in the old executive office building. when you put him in the west wing, betwedown the hall from t oval office, that sends a strong signal. >> the availability of fritz mondale to be in the oval office on the spur of the moment someti sometimes, the action was made. if i was in a quandary, his sound judgment was helpful. having him at my side was a very important -- it strengthened all of the confidence in controversial decisions i made to have mondale with me. the full authority that i gave him over any member of my staff, even my chief of staff, that they had to obey an order from him just like it came from me. those factors i think were very important in making the change we did accomplish. i think they would have been impossible had he been in a remote location. >> moving into the white house, being a part of the president's administration and the way we did it, it was the trick. >> when i met with former vice president mondale, we had an opportunity to talk a bit about his service in office and his experience serving alongside president carter. many historians and observers record that that was a time that the vice presidency took on a different role. >> governor carter said some weeks back he wanted his vice president to have a more prominent role than any vice president of american history. i think it has been that. i sat in on all the crucial discussions, key executive posts. >> beginning with fritz mondale, there was more of a delegation of that responsibility to the vice president, because when the vice president spoke, no one had to worry to use my mom's expression that anything would be missed between the cup and the lip. they knew it was the president speaking. >> i don't believe you ought to be quoting me on what i'm ready to do on these amendments. tell what you are doing. >> mr. president, that was not my quote. i'm sorry. >> all the tickers are raising hell about it. >> i was asked. i said, the president of the united states -- >> don't quote me unless you talk to me, unless you know i want to say it. i can say it down here. i have been saying it at every press conference. they would like very much to say -- i'm -- that's not my position. >> you have a hard core reporter staff there. they know what's going on. >> you have key executive officials that know what's going on. if they're not saying is working, the word will get out it isn't working. >> president clinton made it abundantly and crystal clear that he was going to back me up. that was essential. if the president has delegated power and delegated discretion to make decisions with a clear understanding that whatever decision the vice president makes is going to be backed up by the president, then that becomes power. it's presidential power that's delegated and used by the vice president. in practice, you can get an awful lot done that way, because you are a second set of eyes and ears and a decision maker with 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heart disease. so we sort of cobbled together our own, which was to sign a letter of resignation, give it to my lawyer dave addington, and he held it in his office. it basically said that i resign the vice presidency at noon today. then my counsel would take the letter that i had already signed and give it to the president. it's the act of submitting the letter to the secretary of state that vacates the office, makes the resignation effective. >> the vetting process is they sort of take you, turn you upside down, shake you, and everything comes out. i told my wife one time, i think he knows more about me than you do. she didn't really appreciate that, but i think it's probably true, because he is asking all these questions. but you go through it because you have to. and it's something that hopefully i won't have to experience again. >> i picked up the phone and heard that very familiar voice over the line. and he said, "mike, it's going to be great." after he gave me that enthusiastic message, i said to him, and i called him donald back then, i said well, donald, if there was a question in there, the answer is yes. we were very happy to go through that process. through a process i expect of looking at our record and our career to make sure that our nominee had all the information that he would need to make an informed decision. >> i tell you when it really hit me. we went to the inaugural parade. we had some minnesota floats there. and we were watching the parade go by. at one point, a secret service man tapped my shoulder and said would you like to go to your office now in the white house. i had never -- i thought of it, but it wasn't really -- i didn't think it was going to happen or something. i don't know. >> i had a vision of the role, and it started with watching my dad be the vice president of the ronald reagan. he earned ronald reagan's trust because he was loyal. and he had established a very close relationship with president reagan. i was hopeful for the 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in that sense because as time goes on, the office becomes more important because of the breadth of the responsibilities of a president are just increasing. they get larger and larger, more complex. >> i think back to george mcgovern when he picked eagleton. the first presidential decision was a bust. it wasn't very well vetted, and it set his campaign way back. >> missouri senator thomas eagleton draws as presidential candidate george mcgovern's running mate. the move follows the disclosure that eagleton had been hospitalized for psychiatric treatment in the 1960s and twice received electroshock treatment for depression. >> if i remain on the ticket, all the attention and all the debate would be about eagleton as george calls it, his past medical history. and it would take away from focusing on some problems that have to be attended to. >> i do not say that this matter was handled every step of the way as wisely as possible, but if there were mistakes, they were mistakes of the heart. >> a vice president can't win an election, but a vice presidential pick can lose an election. this is the home of vice president hubert humphrey in rock creek park, washington. and this is a typical day in the life of mr. humphrey. it starts early and energetically. even the family dog gets in the act as another busy day begins. >> for most of the history of this country, the vice president didn't have an official residence. lived in various places around washington, d.c. >> it was determined in the late '60s, early '70s that there needed to be a vice presidential residence. >> the first one eligible for it was nelson rockefeller. he had dinners there, but he never moved into it because he had a better house on fox hall lane. so the first one to really occupy it was walter mondale on a full-time basis. i was the first to have young kids. >> i was glad when mondales moved in and used it very effectively. >> a vice president's house is really extraordinary. i like it better than the white house because it's more remote. >> it's beautiful, beautiful, maybe the most beautiful piece of property in all of washington. on a bright, sunny day you can see the washington monument from the residence. it's over 78 acres. it has the naval observatory on it, but it's gated and it's private. no one can say a negative thing about dan quayle, because he built a swimming pool out there. it was the destination if anybody had any business or wanted to come to washington where there were extra rooms, it was a family home. >> if you want public housing, move in there. i think you'll like it. >> i was a little jealous sometimes because it's less of a museum and more of a house. >> i thought it a cool place to visit when my dad was vice president. i think it's a perfect location for the vice president. i think it's majestic. it is a good place to entertain. and it's private. and people need privacy in washington, d.c. >> we have just enough room to get the dog out for a good run. >> great dog country. we had three great labs while we were there. >> i remember the first time i went over there, i thought, you know, this isn't a bad deal. plus nobody does tours there. >> the four most exciting words in the american political landscape, vice president al gore. >> i enjoy being vice president. as a matter of fact, i went on the david letterman show, and i was asked to draw up a top ten list of the best things about being vice president. i'll not share the whole list, but number five came to mind as i was sitting here next to john and diane cook, looking up at the seal here. i have a seal myself. the great seal of the vice president of the united states of america. and the fifth best thing about being vice president has to do with that seal. if you close your left eye and turn your head just right, it says "president of the united states of america." a great thrill. thank you very much. >> what happened was at first when they went to camp david, i think he stayed in the 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because there are some things the president has to do that i really don't want to spend my time on. taking care of the turkey, for example. >> the vice president's role is to support the president of the united states, to provide steady counsel, to keep that counsel in confidence, to be there to publicly advocate for the agenda the president was elected to advance. >> to be effective and to help the president help the country by helping the president. it really depends 100% on that relationship of trust. if you try to make sure that all your conversations are grounded in the truth as you know it, really stick to that, then it's a pretty simple guideline. >> whether you agreed or disagreed with him, you knew that, a, he was informed, b, he was smart, and c, he cared. so he was entitled to a respectful ear from me and from everybody else on the team. >> i never felt that there was any kind of advice that i shouldn't give him for fear that he might not react well to it. i gave him the 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[ applause ] >> when he gave one of his first addresses to a joint session of congress in the first year, and i was sitting up behind him, presiding along with the speaker of the house, and he began his speech. and he stopped. and while the congress was applauding, you know, they give a bunch of standing ovations at these joint sessions, and he turned around and came up to me and said "al, they got the wrong speech on the teleprompter." he turned around as if nothing was wrong and began giving his speech extemporaneously. but i had the angle on the teleprompter where i could see the pages scrolling up and down and they were changing the file. it must have been a terrible distraction. but for the first seven or eight minutes of that speech, he was just making it up as they went along, and then picked up the text when they finally got the rest of it loaded. >> from a settling of the frontier to the landing on the moon, ours has been a continuous story of challenges defined. >> many commentators and i among them said those were the best eight minutes of the speech. >> you know, cheney had kind of a dry sense of humor. my bodyman left the white house without saying goodbye to anybody. his name was blake, got us in the oval office and something was weird. and he had made a bust of himself and replaced the churchill bust with the bust of himself. and so cheney came in there, and i thought it of course hilarious. i said you see anything different in the oval office? nah, i don't really. he looks around and he sees the bust of blake. "the guy is a real card" which talks about cheney's humor. a pretty dry sense of humor. ♪ >> muriel humphrey telling joe no matter what this job costs you, don't let it cost your family. and there is a lot of messed up kids. you can't let the kids get the big head. they got to know they're still human beings. if you get in that position, you got to work at it. >> maril and i have been through a lot of campaigns, not at this level, but it's really hard on the kids. in school they all knew i was in the senate, but that was no big deal. everybody in washington was the son or daughter of a senator, congressman or cabinet officer, somebody who is important. but now the vice presidential nominee is a little different, and their friends look at them differently. that's tough. our new house is amazing. great street, huge yard. there is a bit of an issue with our neighbors fencing. neighbor 1: allez! 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