Harry Truman, through the National Security Act of 1947, made the vice president an ex officio member of the National Security Council. It was not until the 1950s, under President Dwight D.

Harry Truman said it was “useful as a cow’s fifth teat,” and John Nance Garner, Vice President under Franklin Roosevelt, told fellow Texan Johnson that the office was not worth a “pitcher ...

when President Harry S. Truman chose to use it. The desk has been signed not only be vice presidents, but some of the presidents who have used it. The incoming administration of Donald Trump will ...