The Most Important Vice Presidency Selection Ever

Given FDR’s health, whoever Democrats in 1944 decided as Vice President was going to be President

Henry Wallace, Left, Photo from the Library of Congress. Harry Truman, right, photo from the Office of Presidential Libraries at the NARA

Usually, the vice presidency doesn’t seem like it really matters. Besides taking the mantle in the case of the death of the President, what does the Vice President, well, do?