The NYT struggled yesterday to report a famous story about the vice-presidency. In Frank Bruni’s op-ed piece, “The Hex on Paul Ryan”, he writes: F.D.R.’s first vice president, John Nance Garner, famously characterized the job [of vice president] as not being worth “a warm bucket” of urine, which was euphemized in the retelling as “spit.” … Continue reading The inside-outside strategy