You need to check your facts BD. Slavery was already IN the Constitution from the beginning. Slaves were counted as 3/5ths a "human".
The only other analogous person to Palin was Harry Truman
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Harry S. Truman - 34th Vice President
Party: Democrat
Term: Jan 20, 1945 - Apr 12, 1945
Age at Inauguration: 52
Life Span: May 8, 1884 - Nov 18, 1965 [77]
President:Franklin Roosevelt
Harry Truman did not want to be vice president, and didn't serve that long as eighty-three days into the term Franklin Roosevelt died Presidential Death in Office
Truman was the last vice president who did not attend college
He had hoped to make a living as a piano player but opened a haberdashery with a fellow army buddy that went bust
Truman refused to declare bankruptcy and worked his entire life to pay the debts from the business
While in the senate he was in charge of overseeing the war effort and saved the country an estimated 15 billion dollars
Truman copied John Nance Garner's habit of poker and booze from his senate office
It was during one of these "sessions" that he was summoned to the White House upon the death of FDR President Harry Truman
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