Four Principles for Selecting a Vice President - Roll Call

Four Principles for Selecting a Vice President

By Madison Powers and CQ Guest Columnist

Posted July 23, 2008 at 12:00am

Madison Powers is Senior Research Scholar, Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown University. His column appears each Wednesday in CQ Politics.

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