Just encountered a memo written in December 1976 by the then Vice President-elect Mondale which has been credited in shifting the US Vice Presidency into having a more substantive role in an administration as an advisor to the president.
http://www2.mnhs.org/library/findaids/00697/pdf/Mondale-CarterMemo.pdf
The question is, say Carter picks a different running mate and this memo doesn’t get written and approved, how would the vice presidency progress through the years?
How would this effect running mate picks without there being the precedent or the notion of having the VP as an advisor?
Would the evolution of the vice presidency as OTL would happen without Mondale’s memo regardless?
http://www2.mnhs.org/library/findaids/00697/pdf/Mondale-CarterMemo.pdf
The question is, say Carter picks a different running mate and this memo doesn’t get written and approved, how would the vice presidency progress through the years?
How would this effect running mate picks without there being the precedent or the notion of having the VP as an advisor?
Would the evolution of the vice presidency as OTL would happen without Mondale’s memo regardless?