The New York Times, June 27, 2004
Are They Losing It?
By MAUREEN DOWD
WASHINGTON
One thing you've got to say for Dick Cheney: No one will ever again dismiss the vice presidency as a pitcher of warm spit. Mr. Major League Potty Mouth has shown that, with obsequiousness to the president and obtuseness to the facts, a vice president can run the world. Right into the ground.
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To: Maureen Dowd
From: John Palcewski
Re: your column of June 27.
If memory serves, John Nance Garner referred to the vice presidency as "a pitcher of warm piss." Family newspapers changed it to spit.
John Palcewski
Forio d' Ischia, ITALIA
