Like John Nance Garner before him, Biden will tote his "warm bucket of piss" around the world to ribbon-cuttings and state funerals.

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Georgia's Newt Gingrich could become the first Speaker to tempt fate in this fashion since John Nance "Cactus Jack" Garner, D-Texas, in 1932.

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And when Vice President John Nance Garner challenged Roosevelt for his third term in 1940, Garner was off the ticket and Henry Wallace was named to the ticket.

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