Top 10 Best U.S. Vice Presidents in History
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Many of the most influential Vice Presidents in United States history have gone on to become Presidents, among their many accomplishments. Men like Lyndon B. Johnson and Theodore Roosevelt were called upon to take over the Oval Office after Presidents were assassinated, while VPs like Gerald Ford took the highest office due to scandal. However, men like Walter Mondale significantly changed the office of the vice president. WatchMojo chooses the ten most important Vice Presidents of the United States.
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00:45 #10. Gerald Ford
01:50 #9. John Adams
03:03 #8. Joe Biden
04:27 #7. Dick Cheney
05:46 #6. Harry S. Truman
06:48 #5. Al Gore
07:43 #4. Lyndon B. Johnson
08:50 #3, #2 & #1???
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Here's my Richard Nixon impersonation
I'm not a crook.
I earned everything
He was not the first one to what he did he was the first one to get caught
Sounds believable.
@@todoroki06 He did earn everything!
@@ashleyworden1887 exept the presidential pardon from Ford...
Should probably be top 10 influential VPs.
eurghhh, but how would you judge that?... LBJ and Ford were likely the most influential because they became president... but as a vice presidents alone...
Would be more accurate since fucking Dick Cheney should NEVER be on a list of "best" anything unless it's "best warmongerers/war criminals" and is one of the worst people to ever be in the White House this century.
@@AldenBunagCDAD wonder if you have those same thoughts about Obama's unprecedented use of drones/bombs and foreign and domestic surveillance 🤔
@@rmh941 Of course I do because I'm not a partisan hack.
@@AldenBunagCDAD Wow, that's good. most people that jump on Bush/Cheney are silent when it comes to the Dems.
Since when has Dick Cheney been considered a good vice-president?
Since WatchMojo decided to define "best" for their purposes as meaning "most influential." Cheney was influential; perhaps his only non-negative trait in the VP.
I always felt that that Cheney was really the one in charge
Agreed Dick Cheney lied about WMD which was a major role in our involvement in the middle east. Not to mention he actually shot someone. He is possibly the worst VP ever. When it comes down to it I think his name suits him perfectly.
Since never, guess that's why he didn't bother to run for president in 2008. No one trusted him, and his running mate was stupid enough to listen to him because he worked for his father.
+Mike A To be fair, Bush was actually smart. Media is the one that made him look like an imbecile, and he took advantage of this so that he could further do what he sought as people would blame it on his intelligence rather than be concerned about his ethics. To add, despite people hating Bush, excluding the war, the majority of his choices were popular and liked by the public.
HW should be here. Much better than Cheney.
True
Yes you right! George HW Bush are the best one and also the funniest
@@blinkblink5605 yes he was
@@blinkblink5605 He intensified the War on Drugs and wanted to invade Iraq.
Yes, after all, Bush Sr would go on to succeed Reagan via election, and it's not every VP who can do that.
Al Gore “I created the internet” 😂😂 that will always be a classic
I have actually been doing some history research into Nixon and I must admit yes his record is better than most people think. He was a popular vice president and was popular in his first term. He just got greedy and vengeful against the Democrats with Watergate, not to mention paranoid. If he had just not been stupid with his 2nd term he would be remembered as a fairly successful president.
Nixon is one of my heroes!
Agreed
Nixon actually did some pretty great things while he was in office himself. It's too bad that he also had to be so paranoid and underhanded. He could have been regarded as one of the better presidents in history rather than one of the worst.
Nixon should have been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize 🏆 after opening the Western Free World to China, almost certainly preventing armed hostilities and possibly all out war.
GokuFievel32 I lived through his Presidency and can confirm everything that you said. 👍🤓
Walter Mondale just passed away. R.I.P. Walter Mondale.😢
Fun Fact: Every VP on this list except for Dick Cheney got their party’s nomination for President at some point in their lives. And all of them except for Gore, Mondale, and Cheney eventually became president.
Mistake by excluding George H W Bush.
Jordan Rhea and putting joe biden
this entire list is misinformed, teddy roosevelt even admitted he had no contribution as vice president. he's just number one because he's a great president. also many of these guys were just famous because they eventually became presidents, while none had that much clout until the 60s-70s with walter mondale etc... simply because the power of vice-presidents was extremely limited until ike eisenhower and so on gave more cabinet power to them. apparently it was because Ike learned about how truman had absolutely no inside in the presidency and only met fdr TWICE! he literally relied on his guts to become a successful president. but still, that shows how powerless vps were until the last 60 or so years.
@@jamesbourke9147 Biden was a good VP. He championed so many things while as VP and is considered the most influential and powerful VP we have had.
@Jordan Rhea I agree. He certainly helped Reagan defeat me in 1980!
@@jimmycarter9861 how are you living so long?
I love how like half of these people became President later.
@Jesse Kliman Unfortunately.
@Jesse Kliman He's no FDR.
@@lmperlum he’s also no trump
@Ludwig Van Beethoven perfectly worded
@@lmperlum You do realize that almost 0 president has the privilege to claim they were the 2nd FDR. Biden has a chance of being a great president, so far he's off to a good start but we gotta hope it stays this way instead of trying to bring him down.
I think that you left off George HW Bush. He was a great VP to Reagan and, through his service, earned the Presidency.
Yeah!
I like the bush
Bush Sr was a good VP
so glad Nixon and Roosevelt were on here
yea all in all he was a good president. people just think he is bad because he is the only president to get caught in a scandal.
@@mericzopaul9621 Yeah, there was like 5 presidents with many scandles, Warren Harding was a big one
@@jamesmonroe1441 IK I'm just saying that Nixon was good until watergate
@@jamesmonroe1441 i thought he just tryed to cover it up
@@highoctanegames Grant was good tho
Here after Vice President Mondale passed 😭
Hes a loser who lost by alot
@@blackmexicantrumpvoter6509 he's also the reason the vice president position is as involved and important as it is today
@@BigJunnySoprano69 even though my opinion doesn't really matter I think he is just as bad as Dick Cheney but Dick Cheney is obviously worse
@tyler I do not understand the logic in that comparison
Calvin Coolidge should be on the list
Im a Democrat, but even I know Cheney was more influential than Gore.
Benjamin Jack Kata Finau he did his job, and people hate him for it.
He was more influential because everyone knew that he was a vicious warmonger
Gore was more influential in a good way
@@foxja1 as a big fan of Al Gore I can agree
Yes, Dubya's VP isn't just a Dick, he's a Darth.
Bush(Sr) way more better than Cheney
8:37 looks like Ted Cruz
Lol when I first saw it I thought he was Ted cruz
It’s the zodiac killer, confirmed
Gerald Ford? Harry Truman? Teddy Roosevelt? I don’t have a problem with any of them personally or politically but They were each VP for less than a year!
And Ford wasn't even elected!!! How amazing is that?!
The word 'either' cannot be used when discussing more than two things.
Well stepping up to a role you never thought you’d be put into is pretty admirable, if we’re being honest
Truman May have been VP for less than a year. He did press the cabinet to brief him on a few matters like Manhattan.
Truman did a lot for less than three months.
What about Vice President George HW Bush?
Yeah, I thought that he was going to be on the list.
I agree, H.W. Bush was a smart choice and worked a lot with the economics to help get the inflation rate down and the progress back on track.
Yeah!i love HW!what the hell!?
Luis Davila hw Reagan for DAYS
George H.W. Bush should have ranked at least within the top five.
(1) Bush was able to balance the ticket as Reagan's Vice President, after losing the Presidential nomination in 1980...LBJ provided a similar balance in 1960.
(2) Bush was able to expand the role that Vice Presidents had as a senior advisor, ambassador-at-large, legislative liason, etc...
(3) Bush served two full terms as Vice President, the first VP since Nixon (1953-1961).
Truman was Vice President for three months, but had little effect on policy during his time in office. Truman had one major assignment from FDR: to get former Vice President Henry Wallace confirmed as Secretary of Commerce.
TR was Vice President for six months with no major duties assigned in his time in office. But, he also was the first accidental President to be elected to a full term in office.
(4) Bush provided continuity whenever the President was ill...Presidential Power was transfered to the Vice President for the first time when he was VP.
(5) Bush was the ONLY incumbent Vice President since 1836 to be elected as President of the United States.
Henry Wallace was a great VP
So was Humphrey (Yes, born and raised here)
RIP Walter Mondale
So Calvin Coolidge, am I right?
IronPiedmont1996 great president
Best vp who became president
Where's Henry Wallace on this list?!
IronPiedmont1996 rip 1872-1933
I called Theodore Roosevelt just by reading the title
2009 joe Biden elected Vice President: Clap clap clap
2020:Joe Biden elected president:boom fireworks
People in 2020:Biden, he Vice President?
Calvin Coolidge definately should be on this list
Silent Cal did keep Harding's secrets I'll grant you that.
@@honestone490 Yes, because it's a well known fact they were thick as thieves
4:28 HAHAHAHAHAHHA Oh wait you’re serious let me laugh even harder AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
I’m in the hospital because of how hard I was laughing
TBH, Andrew Johnson did better as the Vice President than he did as the President.
Look as long Theodore Roosevelt is number 1 on this list I'm good, Cause That dude in the 1st Cowboy to become Vice and Presidents in United States of America so cool and insane, ROOSEVELT RULES (Y).
@Celestino Racpan True! He didn’t like the position he was put in as a VP. But remember he Travel 500 stops, In 23 states. He was an X Factor for the Republican Party.
Where’s George H W Bush?!??
Dead. 😪
and miss mojo should make something like "the hottest vice presidents in history"
Hana Prieto I'm crying 😭 😭😭😭😭
Yessssssss but no one was hot. JFK was the only hot president.
Google young Gerald Ford
@@the1youlovetohate633 franklin pierce
Young Nixon and young Eisenhower would surprise many. Never got the fuss about JFK. Other than myself, Rutherford B Hayes in his younger pictures, is my top pick.
Where's the live video of John Adams? Gonna need actual footage ;)
Dick Cheney! Really!
And George H W Bush should be on the list.
He's as big a war criminal as Cheney. (Yes, H.W.!)
How? Has the U.N./NATO declared this?
2009-2017 Barack and Robin the real dynamic duo
Why is no one talking about how Al Gore is such a badass name
It only got two syllables 😂😂
George H .W. Bush should've been in the Honorable Mentions list.
Top 5 I think
John tyler got honorable mention with his 30 days of being VP. Nice
31
Rip walter Mondale
Let's not forget, Al Gore invented the internet. lol!
R.I.P Mondle 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
Wow. Some balance. Genuinely shocked and pleased.
Joe was such a good VP that he’s now the president 😅
Teddy Roosevelt as the number one VPOTUS? Yes! Good call on that one. Everybody loved TR! :)
This is like MTV's take on politics. It's like they talked to some people around the office about some vice presidents they had heard about during their lifetimes and put them in order. They talk about their #1 choice Teddy Roosevelt's work as a campaigner and then as president, but not actually anything he did as vice president. It's an inane list.
Harry Truman (🇺🇸) will always be the fourth BEST 🇺🇸 president
Yesss
Hennery Wallace should be up high on the list
He should be on the list because of his "transformational role" in the office, but somewhere between 5 and 10.
However, Wallace was also dumped from the Presidential ticket in 1944, when FDR successfully ran for the 4th term.
I agree Henry Wallace should probably take Cheney’s spot. And actually FDR really liked Wallace but the Democratic Party wanted someone else and since he was considered “liberal” for the time it would seem as if a bad choice to put him in vp because Roosevelt’s health was very scary. Nonetheless he probably would have been a better president than Truman.
Absolutely agree with you Jason
He's my personal first pick. Very surprised he's not on the list at all
I agree, though if you see this go back and correct your spelling on the first name lol
It's unfortunate the Democratic Party dumped him considering he was anti-segregation among other progressive views for the time. You can't say Harry Truman ended up being a bad choice considering how he turned out, but Henry Wallace probably could've been the greatest president of all time given his open-mind and level head.
I'm just here after "Vice" to see if Cheney is on the list ✌️
Do Top Founding Fathers!
Coolidge went on to create the roaring 20’s, never mind that, we should just go and choose one out of a hat.
10:18 Reagan's face
I loved the video but I strongly question the choice for 4th, due to the criteria of the relationship the president was imperative which was non existent between Kennedy and Johnson. I would strongly urge that you replace Johnson as the 4th best Vice President instead it should be George H.W Bush.
Darth Cheney himself, that was funny.
The cool thing about a list like this, is that if you don't like it you can make one of your own instead of complaining about this one.
Cheney is by far the most influential VP
Are you serious??? He can't even influence HIMSELF!!! He couldn't even catch Bin Laden and his Talaban...When he struck twice on this Soil...Come on What it took The first Black President to take their whole Talaban Down...You ought to be ashamed of yourself and denounce your American Citizenship saying such a BOGUS statement... HELL, you'd look better saying Thomas Jefferson and he was DAMN Slaveholder and Racist as they come...
*Why is Dick Cheney in this list?*
Well he was the real brain of Bush Administration and the most influential one
Can you do a top 10 presidents
I just woke up I fell asleep during the Gore segment what did I miss?
This is a ridiculously dumb list, especially since you're mainly just choosing VPs who became president after, regardless of their actual roles as VP. You mention Nixon, when Eisenhower infamously said, when asked to name an important decision made by Nixon as VP, said 'give me a week and I'll get back to you.' I'm a huge fan of Harry Truman, as I believe he was the 7th best president in history, but Truman was VP, as you said yourselves, for all of 82-days. And in those 82-days Truman was never even told of the existence of the Atomic bombs. Truman stands as the most important VP pick in history since the Democrats who chose him in 1944 knew that FDR was dying and would not serve out the full term (FDR planned to retire from the presidency after the end of WWII and birth of UN), but that doesn't make him a great VP. And Teddy Roosevelt's another choice who was VP for almost no time, and to say that he played a big role in McKinley's re-election in 1900 is laughably wrong...from 1860 until the 1912 election of Woodrow Wilson, the only Democrat elected president was Grover Cleveland, so McKinley was pretty safe in a rematch with eventual 3-time loser William Jennings Bryan.
But lastly, Dick Cheney? Regardless of his having so much power in George W. Bush's first term (Cheney's power waned in the 2nd term), he was a horrendous VP. Legalizing torture? Being perhaps the major architect of lying us into war with Iraq, a decision we're still not recovered from and who knows if we ever will be? How on earth is he on this list as one of the BEST VP's? Powerful does not mean best. Becoming president later does not mean best. What a joke.
HD L Who CARES what Eisenhow said!!!! ????? Eisenhower was a crook! Nixon was a GOOD MAN!
Lyndon b Johnson was a good vice president
Nice photo of Truman in the thumbnail
please watchmojo can you make a list of the richest nerds in tech Industry
How on earth was Cheney above Biden
since when Biden has been a good politician and what really prove that? Biden is just a typical crooked warmonger as Dick Cheney, Bush, Clinton, etc
how did this become a thing *BEFORE* top 10 worst presidents
I knew Truman would be on here
My favorite VP and P was here, Theodore Roosevelt
Besides John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Richard Milhouse Nixon, Theodore Roosevelt and Harry S Truman all the other people on this list we're horrible vice presidents buy one way or another.
Mondale was fine
#8 is pretty cool, he should run for President or something...
Where's Chester A Arthur?
10: gearld ford
9: John adams
8: Joe Biden
7: dick Cheiny
6: harry s Truman
5: al gorden
4: Lindon b Johnson
3: Richard Nixon
2: Walter malble
1: teadore rosavelt
All VPs who became president
John Adams (VP: 1789-1797) (POTUS: 1797-1801)
Thomas Jefferson (VP: 1797-1801 ) (POTUS: 1801-1809)
Martin Buren (VP: 1833-1837) (POTUS: 1837-1841)
John Tyler (VP: 1841) (POTUS: 1841-1845)
Millard Fillmore (VP: 1849-1850) (POTUS: 1850-1853)
Andrew Johnson (VP: 1865) (POTUS: 1865-1869)
Chester Arthur (VP: 1881) (POTUS: 1881-1885)
Theodore Roosevelt (VP: 1901) (POTUS: 1901-1909)
Calvin Coolidge (VP: 1921-1923) (POTUS: 1923-1929)
Harry S. Truman (VP: 1945) (POTUS: 1945-1953)
Richard Nixon (VP: 1953-1961) (POTUS: 1969-1974)
Lyndon B. Johnson (VP: 1961-1963) (POTUS: 1963-1969)
Gerald Ford (VP: 1973-1974) (POTUS: 1974-1977)
George HW Bush (VP: 1981-1989) (POTUS: 1989-1993)
Joe Biden (VP: 2009-2017) (POTUS: 2021-?)
Al Gore.... Really???
Tim Kaine can play a sick harmonica
I think "Top 10 Most Influential U.S. Vice Presidents in History" would be a far better name.
John Adams doesn't have a real job anyway
👏
Aaron Burr, sir?
8:37 Good god... LBJ is the Zodiac Killer!
Damn u cracked the case lol
I was gonna laugh like lol yeah he’s joking. Then I looked up when LBJ died and realized he could very well have been the zodiac. Now I’m worried
@Steph D Why do you think that? I don’t mean that in a patronising way, I’m genuinely curious.
You forgot to mention that Al Gore saved us from Manbearpig
Why isn't Papa Bush on this list? He should have been at least number two.
Roosevelt is a good pick for #1.
Truman should have been #2.
The majority of the other picks like Mondale, Gore and Biden are only on the list because they had offices in the WH, we’re included in briefings and more than a ceremonial pick.
Loved Al Gore in Simpsons and Futurama
3:03 He left office in 2017, not in 2016
REAALLLLY OUT OF IDEAS NOW 😂😂
me seeing biden after the 2020 elections like
For me gerald ford and lyndon b Johnson are the best
If Theodore Roosevelt could come back from beyond to comment on his 6 1/2 month tenure as Vice President, he would rate himself very lowly as Vice President. In fact, if a political cartoonist pictured him as Rhett Butler and the office of Vice President was Scarlett O'Hara and Theodore mentions Rhett's famous last words, Theodore would certainly have highly praised the political cartoonist.
Teddy 🧸 was definitely the GOAT 🐐.
George HW Bush should be on this list as Reagan's VP.
Calvin Coolidge was pretty great
Already knew who #1 was before I clicked lol
I would go with John Adams, Garret Hobart, Charles Dawes, Richard Nixon, George Bush and Dick Chaney as the best and most important.
Dick Cheney and John Adams were the best
Biden Obama was the best
Biden's back to save us from the fascist cheeto.
You could have replaced Dick Chanie with an old tire and that would have been better
I''m not the only one who knows that Al Gore's 'An Inconvenient Truth' had so many holes in its facts that the UN acknowledged it, right?
I like to call it “A Convenient Lie”.
Third is the one with the hairy chest
Al gore ,inventor of the internet.😂😂😂😂😂😂
is that Gerry Adams in the back at 5:06
Patrick Larkin lol he looks alot like him
How in Jesus fuck did you put Dick Cheney on this list?
Take everything they say with a grain of salt since they are Canadian.
Gerald Ford, Dick Cheney, and Richard Nixon shouldn't be on this list! They were horrible vice presidents!
Kalvin Goodlaxson You're clearly a hardcore democrat.
Gerald Ford is seriously one of the most honest presidents we've had in 50 years. He deserved another term and this is coming from a liberal
Nixon most certainly belongs on this list. He was both a fantastic VP and P
Nice to see an informed opinion - Nixon is most definitely one of America's greatest and accomplished as VP and P.
People should take the time to see what he actually achieved - not JUST the liberal press on watergate.
Cheney was pure evil, Nixon and Ford were fine
I am begging you please make this list
Dick Cheney?! Joe Biden?! That must be a joke.