The most interesting VP in American history?
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This guy's a president of the United States, and he was born in Ireland, and he's in the running for most interesting VP in American history.<br><br>Full disclosure, I lie about him being honestly Irish, but I honestly love the guy, and I love his stories. All of these are true: <br><br>1. He was the President of the United States for several months, and he made several critical decisions, including the one to build the Panama Canal and the VP was the one who decided where it should go. <br>2. This guy's a president of the United States, and he was born in Ireland. <br>3. He married his longtime girlfriend who was engaged to marry the President when he died, and then lie about it for the next 40 years (lied about it for his entire career, 40 being the length of time he lived after the President's death). <br>4. He was in VP during the American Civil War, and he used the power of the White House to have the Vice President of the Confederate States arrested in the North.<br>5. He was in the White House while a group of 8 conspirators were planning to replace the White House staff with lieutenants loyal to the Confederate States, and he helped get them arrested the same night as Lee's surrender at Appomattox. <br>6. He's the last president to have been born in Ireland. <br>7. He's one of the few military commanders in the history of the United States to have been dishonorably discharged from the military, and have it expunged.<br>8. He's 1 of 3 presidents to have served as vice president under 3 presidents, and one of the 2 who served under 3 different presidents, and the first VP to serve under 3 different presidents. <br>9. He made the decision to replace an unpopular military commander in the Western Theater of the Civil War with a young, not-yet-famous general, General Ulysses Grant. <br>10. During the Civil War, he became so sick he needed a wheel chair, and he laid in bed with a fever that lasted the rest of his life, and decided to run for president, and won, and then died a month in office. <br>11. He went to work drunk as the vice president, and gave one of the most infamous speeches in American history as VP, where he was so drunk that he was nearly incoherent, and spent the entire night drunk and passed out. <br>12. He never owned a piece of land in his life. <br>13. He's the only president to have been a full-time bartender who served as president. <br>14. He's the only president who was the son of an Irish immigrant, and the first Irish-born president. <br>15. He was a president of the United States who had to have his portrait photoshopped so that it didn't look like he was drunk in the picture. <br>16. He was the president who made the decision to allow Abe Lincoln to give his Gettysburg Address. <br>17. He was the most powerless president in American history. <br>18. He was the first president to be elected by lieing about his accomplishments. <br>19. He was the president who decided to go to war with Mexico. <br>20. He was the first president to be elected who did not own any land. <br><br>Is this right?
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