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Beyond the Quayle

By Jeremy Lott on 3.11.08 @ 12:08AM

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THE MUSEUM'S TASK of securing vice-presidential donations is made more difficult for one obvious institutional reason: about one-third of the vice presidents go on to become presidents and get their very own taxpayer-funded library and museum. This gives them little incentive to break up their personal collections.

Vanity and regret are also obstacles. Every vice president is but one heartbeat away from his very own museum. Many veeps who fail to transition to the White House continue to think that political comebacks are imminent -- that fate will break their way for once.

Stern-headed realists might want to disabuse them of that notion but it would be the realists who are full of it. As the story of the vice presidency shows, almost anything is possible.

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