kamala harris, mike pence, al gore, or dick cheney to the jury ranks of william wheeler, daniel thompkins, james sherman, or schuyler colfax. when john adams famously remarked, i am nothing as vice president, i may be everything, he overlooked a third possibility, a middle course in which contingency coexisted with significant involvement as a supporting player in the national drama.on in any event we can put paid to the curse of aaron burr the overly ambitiousit running mate who thought he could make off with the top prize at the expense of thomas jefferson, and who condemned a centuries worth of successors vice presidents to suffer the senatorial verbosity of which george clinton, among others, complaint. i said at the outset that clinton had a point. let me know prove it by bringing down the gavel, so to speak, and thanking you for your attentiveness and inviting your questions. comments? [applause] >> constructive criticisms? >> so you talk a little bit about the navalbs observatory, d that he and him touring. -- betty -- can you go into that about that whole process? >> yeah. he was,