"Not Exactly a Crime" is the title of a book on America's vice presidents published in 1972 — a year before Vice President Spiro Agnew was forced to resign for actually committing a crime.

The office of vice president has long been the butt of jokes — you know the punch lines — but as we await Barack Obama's and John McCain's choices for vice president, we do so with the knowledge that vice presidents in the last five administrations have been important offi ...

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