Who is your favorite FORMER U.S. Vice President who NEVER became President and why? (Polite arguing is OK)

In otherwords, don't pick Vice President Harris because she is the current Veep and could be president some day. Don't pick Veeps like John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Calvin Coolidge, Lyndon Johnson, etc., because they became president later. Doesn't have to be someone in your lifetime. So, Elbridge Gerry is okay to pick.

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SW-User

Well obviously AL Gore. The climate emergency we are in might have been lessened if he became POTUS as should have happened.

beckyromero · 36-40, FVIP

@SW-User

I don't know if Gore would have been an "environmentalist" as president. He seems to have found that calling AFTER he lost the election (and he did LOSE that election).

And 9/11 would have still happened. It was a failure of the intelligence community connecting the dots, not of the president. Therefore, the war in Afghanistan would have still happened as well. And Saddam Hussein was too stupid to not eventually provoke the U.S. So a second war in Iraq would have likely still happened, too.

With all that happening, probably all in his first term, I doubt that Gore would have been laser-focusing much on anything else other than national security.

edit: corrected a typo