Before you comment about it, I am well aware of the allegations against Henry Wilson during the Crédit Mobilier scandal. There's not a lot of definitive evidence there. He was still a dang good statesman. Who do you think is the greatest Vice President in American history? Now, here our the worst Vice Presidents in American history: th-cam.com/video/kgbeDIWEM9E/w-d-xo.html
I would say either Dan Quayle or Dick Cheney. Dick Cheney did wonders for national defense and was a righteous man, while Dan Quayle was very intelligent.
Yes but I don't believe it could happen today really I mean they basically room who they want and when I say they I'm talking about the 1% they groom who they want us to choose from and quite frankly I mean Bush and Obama where the worst two-term Presidents probably ever and nobody killed them and I've never seen someone as hated As Trump and no one has killed him so I think ever since they murdered Kennedy and yes they murdered him and that's one of the few things that most Americans can actually agree on, anyway since they murdered him I just don't see it happening in the surveillance state we live in. The only way it could possibly happen and this is really stretching it as long as the Electoral College still exist is if a third-party candidate somehow got enough support to ascend to the office of president. They would take him out in a heartbeat. And I wonder mr. beat if you are counting McKinley he was the one who died of pneumonia right that didn't really have anything to do with his 3 hours long in all your old address are you kind of people that died in the office as well as the ones that were assassinated? I would have to believe you are because I just woke up maybe I should not have commented for my brain starts a firing on all cylinders
Yes Rest In Peace but he wasn’t even close to being a good VP. WAS Against the failed hostage rescue operation and really very anti military But he did what most VP did up until then. Work behind the scenes. Keep quit and stayed away from the spotlights.
@@brucemace5404 opposed to operation eagle claw.i would call it visionary. Turned special operations into.seal team six which dispatched Osama bin laden. Work quietly and effectively as jimmy Carter's partner. No chief executive appreciates being upstaged. An effective vice president urged by his boss to express his opinions.indeed a watershed moment for his office. One of the best.
My favorite part’s your mentioning of Carter being seen negatively as president while Mondale’s performance as VP is typically well-received by those that actually looked into it.
@@iammrbeat why do some presidents pick vice-presidents who ended being horrible or have no charisma while they are great and have charisma like Richard Nixon Eisenhower
My list starts out with the two traitors, Burr and Breckenridge. Then there's the one so famous that he couldn't get along with either of his presidents, John Calhoun (Dawes is honorable mention in this category). Add the flagrantly corrupt Agnew (Colfax at least had some redeeming features). And finally, throw in the sad, sad case of Daniel Tompkins.
I noticed you recently subscribed to me, and I just wanted to say I love your content! I used your 2008 Presidential Election video to help with information on my first ever TH-cam video and I have seen a number of your videos! Keep up the good work Mr. Beat!
@@iammrbeat course he accidentally said I will raise taxes and his running mate had a lot of scandals not that I hate him Mondale I love him I think he picked the wrong woman no offense
@@nerddragon2222 "Let's tell the truth. Mr. Reagan will raise taxes, and so will I. He won't tell you. I just did." Ouch. Proof that just because Americans oughta know something, it doesn't mean they oughta hear it.
I'm putting in a vote for Al Gore. He accepted the results of the 2000 election once the Supreme Court ruled. He did tremendous work on climate change.
0:30 Two main jobs of the Vice President. 2:38 *Walter Mondale* 4:17 *Henry Wilson* 5:48 *William Wheeler* 7:25 *George Clinton* 9:17 *Henry Wallace* 11:15 A phone call to Mr. Bets
Little known fact about that last guy Henry Wallace: He went to the Soviet Union to see how 'successful' their system was (he was an avid socialist) and came back reporting glowing compliments to the Soviet Union about capable leadership, good agriculture, and happy people. He was a big Stalin fan too. (Before it was unpopular to be)
George Clinton's hair in that Congress painting had the opposite of a centre parting. You know you can trust a man with such an outlandish hairstyle, clearly sticks to his guns.
Hell yeah, Henry Wallace! I like to imagine sometimes if he had become president after FDR died instead of Truman, or if he won in '48 on the Progressive Party. He is such an underrated and unfortunately pretty unknown figure. I never even heard of him until I watched that untold history of the United States series by Oliver Stone.
I imagine the alternate universe where he won ALL THE TIME. By no means am I saying it’d be perfect or anything, but the man was so forward thinking that of course his opponents smeared him to strike irrational fear into the voting populace 🙄😭
I literally know nothing about him other than that his last name is my first name and that he was a bit of a pinko (but i'm a full-on red, ML, so... hell yeah!) which was probably the idea when they did the smear campaign.
Henry Wallace was dumped for a couple of reasons. FDR really didn’t care who his VP was, it was the party leaders who demanded that he be replaced because they knew FDR was dying and the VP was going to be President. The Dems were afraid of losing the South if Wallace wasn’t replaced. Wallace was known to be a “pinko” (a communist sympathizer) who spoke Russian and was thought to be too close to the Russian leadership.
Wallace was a hell of a guy and would be a good president right now. However, during the Cold War. The country needed a president like Truman. Wallace didn’t want to oppose the Soviet Union much. If Wallace was president instead of Truman, South Korea would be speaking commie.
Thanks Steve! Yeah, the contrast between the positions of President and Vice President is quite stark. It always amazing how quickly we forget our Veeps.
Great video Mr. Beat. I am glad you made a video about some of the vice presidents because it is a lot harder to find information about them compared to the presidents. In my English class, I had to write a pretty long essay that could be about almost anything and an older video you made called "The World Is Better Now Than Ever Before" gave me an idea for the topic. The paper was about how the world is pretty good compared to the past and I even got the chance to cite your video about the election of 1872. I used that election because there was a paragraph discussing how it is easier for women and ethnic minorities to have a job as a political leader and that election had a woman run for president with an African American as a running mate. In other words, it was extremely weird for a woman and an African American to run for such a position but today a lot of woman and ethnic minorities have been elected to public office at least compared to the 1870s. Anyway, thank you for giving me an idea about something positive in the essay because I much rather write about why the world is getting better than my thoughts on the death penalty or something else that is depressing. PS I earned an A on my final draft of the essay.
Wow, that is awesome Lindsey. Holy crap I got cited in a school essay? I guess I really made it in life. lol But great analysis and use of reference to add some positive perspective to today's society. People constantly lose track of that. I always laugh when I hear someone say they are extremely worried about the direction this country is going. It's always overblown. Have a great weekend!
Way you described Wheeler, particularly the “listens more than he talks” bit, makes it sound like he was quite the Stoic (uppercase “S” intended). Makes me want to read more about him. :)
I’m glad that Mondale made your list. He was the first candidate who I voted for in a presidential election and likely paved the way for my current political values.
I'd love for you to do a series on either the best former presidents (what they accomplished after their time in office) or a list of presidents who tried to run for re-election but were denied the nomination by their party. Thanks, Mr. Beat! (And the Beat goes on..!)
Thanks for mentioning his role in Gideon v. Wainright. He organized state Attorneys General around the country to file a brief in support of the convicted person. This by itself was a significant accomplishment on American history, long before he was in the Senate, let alone V.P.
Henry Wallace's positions on the Cold War were too intricate to be explained during the simplistic anti-communist hysteria of that time. His opponents easily prompted voters to reject him out of fear and confusion.
You made my top list when you named my hero Henry Wallace #1 in your list of Vice Presidents. There are so many reasons, but thank you for giving a fine man and statesman his due. I wonder where we'd be today if Henry Wallace had been our President after the passing of FDR. FDR wanted him, but he was too sick and worn out by the time the Democratic Fat Cats decided to put someone they felt they could control in the Veep seat. I'm not a big fan of Truman, but at least he was able to be grown up enough to say "The Buck Stops Here" rather than, "I didn't do it! It was his idea... " like a grade schooler (no offense meant to grade schoolers).
Truman was one of the best. Watch Mr Beats best presidents videos. Look at Truman’s fair deal real quick btw. He wasn’t THAT far to the right of Wallace. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_Deal
Mr. Beat, love your videos talking about the best/worst people in American Political offices (Presidents, Vice Presidents, etc.). Have you considered doing a "What if. . . hypothetical" regarding Vice Presidents. That is, how American history/policies would have been altered, if men who were the original VPs of Presidents had stayed in those positions, not leaving because of death, resignations, or the President decided to keep them as his running mate. I'm specifically thinking of Hannibal Hamlin, Lincoln's VP during his first term in office, Garett Hobart, McKinley's VP for part of his first term (Hobart died in office, and McKinley picked T. Roosevelt for his second term), and Henry Wallace, FDR's VP during his third term, who was dropped in favor of Truman for FDR's fourth term. Would be interesting to hear your thoughts about what would have happened if any of those men had actually become President.
@@timothyowen4503 Agnew was a corrupt piece of garbage and Quayle was so backwards on every issue that he would have fit better in an 1888 campaign rather than a 1988 one. Kamala just hasn’t done anything, which doesn’t make her the worst, it makes her average. You just don’t like her because she’s a woman.
Although Humphrey ran a decent presidential campaign in 1968, he was forever overshadowed by his more domineering candidate-turned-President LBJ. And the timing couldn't have been worse that year because his attempts to win the White House were also overshadowed by the assassinations of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy. Had he lived, Americans knew that RFK would have won the Presidency going away. Nixon wouldn't have stood a chance against another Kennedy.
Humphrey got the job done and mostly stayed out of hot water despite being a well-known politician during the 1960s. He didn’t accomplish as much as quite a few other VPs, but his integrity & humble approach to government makes him very underrated. We could use more guys like him in our system today
@Marcus Anderson Iowa I could understand, but Texas? Humphrey's candidate, President LBJ, was from Texas. Oh well. Glad Humphrey still has historicity in Minnesota!
Marcus Anderson that’s certainly true for today. I was talking about during the 1960s though, in which of course Humphrey had to have been well-known nationwide back then (he was the Vice President, after all).
10:53 and that's why you're one of my favourite political youtubers. It's very important to let your own dogma make your judgement of someone else, even if they're motivated by a different ideology.
I respectfully disagree with having Wallace on the number one position. FDR did set precedents when it came to the Wallace Vice Presidency. For example, FDR was able to personally choose his Vice Presidential candidate, not the party bosses of the Democratic Party. FDR threatened to refuse the nomination for a third term as President. Roosevelt also had Wallace serve as head of several Executive Task Forces and as a "personal representative of the President on diplomatic missions". But, when FDR sought a fourth term, Wallace was dumped from the ticket, in favor of Truman. FDR pretty much ignored Truman in his fourth term. I would give Mondale the number one position. Mondale knew from his mentor, Herbert Humphrey, who saw both the positive and negative effects a President can have on a Vice President's Office. Humphrey was Vice President under LBJ. When Humphrey resigned from the Senate, Mondale took Humphrey's senate seat. After Mondale became Vice President, every President kept his VP when seeking a second term
@ aprx 10:35 you cite Henry Wallace as "contributing to the end of the Cold War". Earlier you say he was VP during FDR's 3rd term. Most historians agree the Cold War began right after WW2.... at, or shortly after, the Potsdam Conference in July 1945. You can see the disconnect.
He said calling for an end to the Cold War, but he also said that he was judging the VPs based on their whole lives. So he could've called for an end to it after he was no longer VP.
An interesting VP I always thought was Charles Curtis, under Hoover, who was notably an Amerindian. RIP, you'll always unite and avert the Second Civil War in my heard
Interesting that the first non-white VP (he had seven white great-grandparents, but so did Homer Plessy) was also on the first GOP ticket to make significant inroads into the Solid South (though Harding and Coolidge had carried Tennessee eight years earlier). One has to conclude that a mixed race Vice President was less offensive to those bigots than an Irish Catholic President. I wonder how much of a role race played in the vicious smears against him. One particularly nasty one that still pops up today had him regularly sleeping with his sister.
I thought Charles Dawes, who served as VP from 1925 to 1929 would make the list. Not only did he win a Nobel Peace Prize for cooking up a plan for Germany to pay reparations mandated under the Treaty of Versailles, but he co-wrote "It's All in the Game," a Number One hit song for Tommy Edwards in 1958.
c a t No, he didn't hate Communists. He received their endorsement when he ran for president in 1948. Even perennial Socialist candidate Norman Thomas believed Wallace was a Communist dupe. As for Socialists being the same as Communists, well, I'll let you study the full name of the Communist Soviet Union, and then report back. Really, you'll need to try harder in the future.
Mr. Beat --- I heard that Wilson was murdered & the "Killer bathtub" is still in the Capital Building. Do you have any info on this? Nice vid, BTW, thanks!
Wallace was my top one. He Came very close to president. What is bothering me is that you said you aren't a fan of socialism. Almost all of Europe is communist by that standard. The US has had mixed market economy for quite a while. I would just like to know what specific issuess you have with socialism and if you realized how important a lot of socialism is in the 21st century world. I am a social democrat. We believe in a more balanced mixed market economy. Conservatives do what they can to gut social security, environmental research, and any health reform. A healthy mixture of socialism and capitalism is ideal.
I agree with your last statement. In general, however, I think socialism does not help a society grow as wealthy as it should compared to capitalism. The government generally should have a limited role in the economy. However, it's vital the government should intervene to protect our lives, liberty, and property. A mixed market economy often is the solution to this.
If Spiro Agnew kept his hands out of the cookie jar, he would be on my list. He took on the MSM media of his day. Surprisingly to some, he supported civil rights & gave jobs to Blacks in Maryland.
Yeah I've heard about that. He was all about being inclusive with color and overall ethnicity, and he was quite progressive generally. He WAS a bit coarse around the edges (though not QUITE as much as LBJ), and a bit too blunt where diplomacy might have smoothed things a little. And the scandals... :(
NJGuy1973 one things for sure, much like it is impossible to judge Trump because he is the incumbent President, I would exclude Mike Pence from any best/worst VP list
Interesting, personally I would have placed Al Gore somewhere on the list. His push for environmental causes in the Clinton administration was admirable, and it's widely believed his consistent advocacy for innovation & technology helped foster the economic growth and e-commerce boom of the 90s. Just my opinion though.
Yeah, I go back and forth about Gore. Sometimes, I do admire all the environmental activism. Other times, I keep thinking about how much money he has made from it and the hypocrisy. Either way, I do think he heart has always been in the right place.
@Luke DelVecchio Al Gore is a moron. He flies around on private jets and owns five mansions, while preaching to others about global warming. He said back in 2000 that our children may never see snow. Meanwhile we are getting record snowfalls all over the US right now..
Before you comment about it, I am well aware of the allegations against Henry Wilson during the Crédit Mobilier scandal. There's not a lot of definitive evidence there. He was still a dang good statesman.
Who do you think is the greatest Vice President in American history?
Now, here our the worst Vice Presidents in American history: th-cam.com/video/kgbeDIWEM9E/w-d-xo.html
I would say either Dan Quayle or Dick Cheney. Dick Cheney did wonders for national defense and was a righteous man, while Dan Quayle was very intelligent.
Mr. Beat could you do a video about all the channels that you endorse :)
+Oliver Hees Lol
larrywave, that's a great idea. Maybe for my 50,000 sub special if that ever happens?
VICE GRIP, a member of the Tool Party. Their slogan is "It's Tool Time, baby!"
18% death rate? Sounds like the deadliest job a person can have...
Necko Agic it is
Try Pope ... except for two (Coelestin V and Benedict XVI) they all died in office.
Try monarch of the UK. It has an 89% death rate.
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Didn't that celestine v guy resign due to lack of competence or something
Yes but I don't believe it could happen today really I mean they basically room who they want and when I say they I'm talking about the 1% they groom who they want us to choose from and quite frankly I mean Bush and Obama where the worst two-term Presidents probably ever and nobody killed them and I've never seen someone as hated As Trump and no one has killed him so I think ever since they murdered Kennedy and yes they murdered him and that's one of the few things that most Americans can actually agree on, anyway since they murdered him I just don't see it happening in the surveillance state we live in. The only way it could possibly happen and this is really stretching it as long as the Electoral College still exist is if a third-party candidate somehow got enough support to ascend to the office of president. They would take him out in a heartbeat. And I wonder mr. beat if you are counting McKinley he was the one who died of pneumonia right that didn't really have anything to do with his 3 hours long in all your old address are you kind of people that died in the office as well as the ones that were assassinated? I would have to believe you are because I just woke up maybe I should not have commented for my brain starts a firing on all cylinders
"When he did speak, he made an impact. He had the best words"
He knows words. He has the best words.
no one has better words than me believe me
Who is he? Before using a pronoun, one must establish its antecedent.
@@sharonwheat3659William Wheeler
Rest In Peace Walter Mondale, you’re one of the greatest Vice Presidents ever
Yes Rest In Peace but he wasn’t even close to being a good VP. WAS Against the failed hostage rescue operation and really very anti military But he did what most VP did up until then. Work behind the scenes. Keep quit and stayed away from the spotlights.
@@brucemace5404 opposed to operation eagle claw.i would call it visionary. Turned special operations into.seal team six which dispatched Osama bin laden. Work quietly and effectively as jimmy Carter's partner. No chief executive appreciates being upstaged. An effective vice president urged by his boss to express his opinions.indeed a watershed moment for his office. One of the best.
He was the vp to the goat
R.I.P Walter Mondale. Just came back to remember this.
Yes R.I.P.
Honorable mention to Joe Biden for being the most meme-able.
Well that's a whole other countdown!
@@iammrbeat AKA mr. Gafes
I love the message
Its funny because biden is about to win.
Milo Pesca sadly
My favorite part’s your mentioning of Carter being seen negatively as president while Mondale’s performance as VP is typically well-received by those that actually looked into it.
Yeah, I've always been fascinated by that. :D
@@iammrbeat why do some presidents pick vice-presidents who ended being horrible or have no charisma while they are great and have charisma like Richard Nixon Eisenhower
I will raise taxes the only differences he won't tell you
Course Ferraro was a bad running mate seriously New York I get if you want a female vice president but she was certainly not it
@@iammrbeat the 10worst vice presidential pics
Next up, Top 5 Worst US Vice Presidents in History.
Eventually!
cheney is number 1. end of story
My list starts out with the two traitors, Burr and Breckenridge. Then there's the one so famous that he couldn't get along with either of his presidents, John Calhoun (Dawes is honorable mention in this category). Add the flagrantly corrupt Agnew (Colfax at least had some redeeming features). And finally, throw in the sad, sad case of Daniel Tompkins.
Biden.
5. Mike Pence
4. Dan Quayle
3. Spiro Agnew
2. John C. Calhoun
1. Dick Cheney
I noticed you recently subscribed to me, and I just wanted to say I love your content! I used your 2008 Presidential Election video to help with information on my first ever TH-cam video and I have seen a number of your videos! Keep up the good work Mr. Beat!
That's awesome. :D Well I enjoy your channel as well. Your hypotheticals and analyses are ridiculously entertaining. We should collaborate some time!
Definitely! Do you have anything I can contact you on?
Oh! Hey Ethan. Didn't know you frequently watched Mr. Beat as much as I do.
And now they have collabed!
Hi there, I’m a big fan of both of you. Keep up the good work you guys!! 👍🏻
I think Mondale is most remembered for saying "Where's the beef".
And that wasn't even that clever to say. Let's get him remembered for the Fair Housing Act. Yeah! Let's go!
@@iammrbeat course he accidentally said I will raise taxes and his running mate had a lot of scandals not that I hate him Mondale I love him I think he picked the wrong woman no offense
@@nerddragon2222 "Let's tell the truth. Mr. Reagan will raise taxes, and so will I. He won't tell you. I just did." Ouch. Proof that just because Americans oughta know something, it doesn't mean they oughta hear it.
Rest in peace, Mr. Mondale. He just died today at age 93. 2021-04-19
@@ChrisJones-ij3xp Another reason Mondale lost, Reagan just destroyed him in the debate.
Speaking of Vice Presidents Walter Mondale just passed away. He was 93.
I'm putting in a vote for Al Gore. He accepted the results of the 2000 election once the Supreme Court ruled. He did tremendous work on climate change.
0:30 Two main jobs of the Vice President.
2:38 *Walter Mondale*
4:17 *Henry Wilson*
5:48 *William Wheeler*
7:25 *George Clinton*
9:17 *Henry Wallace*
11:15 A phone call to Mr. Bets
Biden’s not on this list?
@@ytxdthe2344 Well duh
Henry Wallace has the face of a genuinely honest, compassionate and caring person.
Thanks for the cool video!
Thanks for watching :D
You should've done a top 10 instead of top 5
Yeah, I was tempted to :D
Little known fact about that last guy Henry Wallace: He went to the Soviet Union to see how 'successful' their system was (he was an avid socialist) and came back reporting glowing compliments to the Soviet Union about capable leadership, good agriculture, and happy people.
He was a big Stalin fan too. (Before it was unpopular to be)
George Clinton's hair in that Congress painting had the opposite of a centre parting. You know you can trust a man with such an outlandish hairstyle, clearly sticks to his guns.
hahaha well put
King Peppy Perhaps even invented it! Founding father? more like founding funker.
His eyebrows too!
And he took over from the British General Henry Clinton as well!
@@StefanMilo otherwise known as Dr. Funkenstein, PHD, founding funker of the Mothership and W.E.F.U.N.K. radio network.
When Sec of Agriculture Henry Wallace being the scientist that he was solved the problem of the dust bowl by redesigning agricultural machinery.
Hell yeah, Henry Wallace! I like to imagine sometimes if he had become president after FDR died instead of Truman, or if he won in '48 on the Progressive Party. He is such an underrated and unfortunately pretty unknown figure. I never even heard of him until I watched that untold history of the United States series by Oliver Stone.
I imagine the alternate universe where he won ALL THE TIME. By no means am I saying it’d be perfect or anything, but the man was so forward thinking that of course his opponents smeared him to strike irrational fear into the voting populace 🙄😭
I literally know nothing about him other than that his last name is my first name and that he was a bit of a pinko (but i'm a full-on red, ML, so... hell yeah!) which was probably the idea when they did the smear campaign.
One of my favorites too, with his handling of the dust bowl. Sometimes it does take science. This FDR got himself some interesting people in his team
11:09 11:09
FDR died 1943 VP Henry Wallace 34th president America
RIP Walter Mondale
1928-2021
Top 10 senators?
That one's definitely coming eventually
@@iammrbeat Mark Hatfield is 1
Birch Bayh
@@iammrbeat Joe Biden
@@nerddragon2222 nah bernie sanders
Respect for Walter Mondale. He’s a legend
Wallace needs more love! Excellent video, Mr. Beat!
When I saw Wallace at #1 I was soooooo pleased... a man truly ahead of his time, #WallaceForPrezFromBeyondTheGrave XD
Henry Wallace was almost President if only he was kept on the ticket by FDR during the 1944 Presidential election.
The Democratic Establishment did to Wallace in 1944 what they did to Sanders in 2016
Henry Wallace was dumped for a couple of reasons. FDR really didn’t care who his VP was, it was the party leaders who demanded that he be replaced because they knew FDR was dying and the VP was going to be President. The Dems were afraid of losing the South if Wallace wasn’t replaced. Wallace was known to be a “pinko” (a communist sympathizer) who spoke Russian and was thought to be too close to the Russian leadership.
Wallace was a hell of a guy and would be a good president right now. However, during the Cold War. The country needed a president like Truman. Wallace didn’t want to oppose the Soviet Union much. If Wallace was president instead of Truman, South Korea would be speaking commie.
Excellent work here... Veeps never get any love. At least there’s one corner of the internet where their work is upheld...
Thanks Steve! Yeah, the contrast between the positions of President and Vice President is quite stark. It always amazing how quickly we forget our Veeps.
Great video Mr. Beat. I am glad you made a video about some of the vice presidents because it is a lot harder to find information about them compared to the presidents. In my English class, I had to write a pretty long essay that could be about almost anything and an older video you made called "The World Is Better Now Than Ever Before" gave me an idea for the topic. The paper was about how the world is pretty good compared to the past and I even got the chance to cite your video about the election of 1872. I used that election because there was a paragraph discussing how it is easier for women and ethnic minorities to have a job as a political leader and that election had a woman run for president with an African American as a running mate. In other words, it was extremely weird for a woman and an African American to run for such a position but today a lot of woman and ethnic minorities have been elected to public office at least compared to the 1870s. Anyway, thank you for giving me an idea about something positive in the essay because I much rather write about why the world is getting better than my thoughts on the death penalty or something else that is depressing. PS I earned an A on my final draft of the essay.
Wow, that is awesome Lindsey. Holy crap I got cited in a school essay? I guess I really made it in life. lol But great analysis and use of reference to add some positive perspective to today's society. People constantly lose track of that. I always laugh when I hear someone say they are extremely worried about the direction this country is going. It's always overblown. Have a great weekend!
@@iammrbeat Well it isn't overblown right now. Forget partisan politics,Trump has to go.That guy has very FASCIST tendencies.
Way you described Wheeler, particularly the “listens more than he talks” bit, makes it sound like he was quite the Stoic (uppercase “S” intended). Makes me want to read more about him. :)
I learned about Henry Wallace recently. What a legend!
Wow, wasn't expecting you to have Wallace as your no 1. He's my favourite VP. Woop.
I wasn't either lol. But yeah, he was a pretty swell dude.
The fact that he was naive enough not to realize that he was in a slave labor camp during his USSR tour would keep him off my list.
I’m glad that Mondale made your list. He was the first candidate who I voted for in a presidential election and likely paved the way for my current political values.
I'd love for you to do a series on either the best former presidents (what they accomplished after their time in office) or a list of presidents who tried to run for re-election but were denied the nomination by their party. Thanks, Mr. Beat! (And the Beat goes on..!)
Thanks for mentioning his role in Gideon v. Wainright. He organized state Attorneys General around the country to file a brief in support of the convicted person. This by itself was a significant accomplishment on American history, long before he was in the Senate, let alone V.P.
“Who is still alive and kicking I might add” 😭😭😭
18%......, is realy high..., indeed.
Also Carter is underrated! As a person and president!
Me: If this mofo doesn't have Henry Wallace at #1...
Mr. Beat: And at #1... Henry Wallace
Me: Oh, well... good on you bro, didn't see that one coming!
RIP Walter Mondale you will be missed
Your channel is awesome. It is always interesting, informative, and entertaining.
Nice list as always Mr Beat!
Well thank you :D
NIce list as always Mr Beat
Good video. It’s good to see that Vice Presidents aren’t completely overshadowed by the Presidents.
Henry Wallace's positions on the Cold War were too intricate to be explained during the simplistic anti-communist hysteria of that time. His opponents easily prompted voters to reject him out of fear and confusion.
He seemed to be ahead of his time. Hes like a guy from the 80s and 90s being placed on the 40s...
YEP. The US has always had an anti-intellectual streak 🙄
Thanks for the video,Mr. Beat. Nice work.
Excellent video as always Mr. Beat! You should make one on the top 10 congressmen.
There are sooo many to choose from!
Only 12,244 :D
A lot more views and comments now than when you did the Worst VPs video, Mr Beat. Long may you continue to flourish!
THESE ARE ALL EXCELLENT SELECTIONS .
WHAT A TEACHER THIS GUY MUST BE .
Your number one sold me. Good job.
I love your picks Mr Beat and I would also add Al Gore, Hubert Humphery and Joe Biden. Great video!
I always enjoy your videos, but I especially liked this one. Thanks!
2:41 Unfortunately, that is no longer true.
On a binge watch of your content ☺️
You made my top list when you named my hero Henry Wallace #1 in your list of Vice Presidents. There are so many reasons, but thank you for giving a fine man and statesman his due.
I wonder where we'd be today if Henry Wallace had been our President after the passing of FDR. FDR wanted him, but he was too sick and worn out by the time the Democratic Fat Cats decided to put someone they felt they could control in the Veep seat. I'm not a big fan of Truman, but at least he was able to be grown up enough to say "The Buck Stops Here" rather than, "I didn't do it! It was his idea... " like a grade schooler (no offense meant to grade schoolers).
Truman was one of the best. Watch Mr Beats best presidents videos.
Look at Truman’s fair deal real quick btw. He wasn’t THAT far to the right of Wallace. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_Deal
Mr. Beat, love your videos talking about the best/worst people in American Political offices (Presidents, Vice Presidents, etc.). Have you considered doing a "What if. . . hypothetical" regarding Vice Presidents. That is, how American history/policies would have been altered, if men who were the original VPs of Presidents had stayed in those positions, not leaving because of death, resignations, or the President decided to keep them as his running mate. I'm specifically thinking of Hannibal Hamlin, Lincoln's VP during his first term in office, Garett Hobart, McKinley's VP for part of his first term (Hobart died in office, and McKinley picked T. Roosevelt for his second term), and Henry Wallace, FDR's VP during his third term, who was dropped in favor of Truman for FDR's fourth term. Would be interesting to hear your thoughts about what would have happened if any of those men had actually become President.
My List for Top 5 Vice Presidents in reverse order:
5.) Hubert Humphrey
4.) Walter Mondale
3.) Nelson Rockefeller
2.) Dan Quayle
1.) Spiro T. Agnew
Agnew and Quayle were two of the absolute worst VPs though??
@@LeakyTrees I don't think so. They just had poor PR. Of course Kamala is the absolute worst.
@@timothyowen4503 Agnew was a corrupt piece of garbage and Quayle was so backwards on every issue that he would have fit better in an 1888 campaign rather than a 1988 one. Kamala just hasn’t done anything, which doesn’t make her the worst, it makes her average. You just don’t like her because she’s a woman.
Nice job, greetings from spain
Oh wow didn’t expect you to put Wallace on this list. Let alone number one. Nice.
Would it be possible to do your top Supreme Court Justices? Thank you for all your videos.
No Hubert Humphrey :(
Although Humphrey ran a decent presidential campaign in 1968, he was forever overshadowed by his more domineering candidate-turned-President LBJ. And the timing couldn't have been worse that year because his attempts to win the White House were also overshadowed by the assassinations of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy. Had he lived, Americans knew that RFK would have won the Presidency going away. Nixon wouldn't have stood a chance against another Kennedy.
Ikr
Humphrey got the job done and mostly stayed out of hot water despite being a well-known politician during the 1960s. He didn’t accomplish as much as quite a few other VPs, but his integrity & humble approach to government makes him very underrated. We could use more guys like him in our system today
@Marcus Anderson Iowa I could understand, but Texas? Humphrey's candidate, President LBJ, was from Texas. Oh well. Glad Humphrey still has historicity in Minnesota!
Marcus Anderson that’s certainly true for today. I was talking about during the 1960s though, in which of course Humphrey had to have been well-known nationwide back then (he was the Vice President, after all).
i love how even if you disagree with the policies, you judge them based on character
Geraldine Ferraro: I could be the first female VP
Kamala Harris: Hold my martini
at less ferraro was worthy
10:53 and that's why you're one of my favourite political youtubers. It's very important to let your own dogma make your judgement of someone else, even if they're motivated by a different ideology.
10/10 Parliament Funkadelic joke
I've been watching your videos for the past 9 hours
Rest in power Walter Mondale (1928-2021).
A great Vice President and a great man.
I was waiting to hear Henry Wallace... and I'm so happy about it the most based vp
“#1 Henrry Wallace”
*instant like*
Great video mr beat. Nice to see some history on the Vice president for a change. Good job.
Thanks :D
I respectfully disagree with having Wallace on the number one position. FDR did set precedents when it came to the Wallace Vice Presidency.
For example, FDR was able to personally choose his Vice Presidential candidate, not the party bosses of the Democratic Party. FDR threatened to refuse the nomination for a third term as President.
Roosevelt also had Wallace serve as head of several Executive Task Forces and as a "personal representative of the President on diplomatic missions".
But, when FDR sought a fourth term, Wallace was dumped from the ticket, in favor of Truman. FDR pretty much ignored Truman in his fourth term.
I would give Mondale the number one position. Mondale knew from his mentor, Herbert Humphrey, who saw both the positive and negative effects a President can have on a Vice President's Office. Humphrey was Vice President under LBJ. When Humphrey resigned from the Senate, Mondale took Humphrey's senate seat.
After Mondale became Vice President, every President kept his VP when seeking a second term
I'm so glad you put Henry Wallace as #1. Wallace is the goat
Henry Wilson is my 4th great uncle, his original name was Jeremiah Jones Colbath!
Rest In Peace Walter Mondale. Great senator and Vice President.
Pence: I was expecting myself on the list.
Mother: 🤦♀️
Pence: Kidding 😅😅
Yeah, not until Trump/Pence are out of office
Ngl I found this guy 2 years ago when I mistyped MrBeast in the TH-cam search, and loved this guys content.
This is a great reminder that a lot of important history has been made by Vice Presidents 👍
Great list 👌
henry wallace losing the bid for vp to truman was one of the most tragic things to happen in this country.
You might want to study how he “lost” that bid.
@@kenneaderhiser7768 trust, I know it was a load of bs. Nonetheless our country woulda been on a much better course…
Honorary mention to Al Gore. He was an active VP. Did more than 2 term presidents.
@ aprx 10:35 you cite Henry Wallace as "contributing to the end of the Cold War". Earlier you say he was VP during FDR's 3rd term. Most historians agree the Cold War began right after WW2.... at, or shortly after, the Potsdam Conference in July 1945. You can see the disconnect.
He said calling for an end to the Cold War, but he also said that he was judging the VPs based on their whole lives. So he could've called for an end to it after he was no longer VP.
I won't lie, when I saw 'Wallace' my brain jumped to two things:
1. When was governor wallace vp?
2. WHAT? OH WAIT IT'S HENRY NOT GEORGE NVM NVM NVM
Thank you for making Wallace #1. I do appreciate that.
My Top 5 best Vice Ps
5. Al Gore
4. Lyndon Johnson
3. Richard Nixon (Not including his presidency)
2. Walter Mondale
1. Theodore Roosevelt
I want Nixon as President than Vice President he was close to Eisenhower and his daughter married Eisenhower’s grandson
"He had the best words". I see what you did there 🤣
I absolutely love your videos. Keep it up, new subscriber here
An interesting VP I always thought was Charles Curtis, under Hoover, who was notably an Amerindian.
RIP, you'll always unite and avert the Second Civil War in my heard
Interesting that the first non-white VP (he had seven white great-grandparents, but so did Homer Plessy) was also on the first GOP ticket to make significant inroads into the Solid South (though Harding and Coolidge had carried Tennessee eight years earlier). One has to conclude that a mixed race Vice President was less offensive to those bigots than an Irish Catholic President.
I wonder how much of a role race played in the vicious smears against him. One particularly nasty one that still pops up today had him regularly sleeping with his sister.
It's really nice to hear about politicians who were great public servants.
Mondale is now dead sadly😭
Another great video!
In my opinion the #1 VP was Al Gore.
I thought Charles Dawes, who served as VP from 1925 to 1929 would make the list. Not only did he win a Nobel Peace Prize for cooking up a plan for Germany to pay reparations mandated under the Treaty of Versailles, but he co-wrote "It's All in the Game," a Number One hit song for Tommy Edwards in 1958.
I was delighted to see Henry Wallace at number 1. He truly was one of the finest people to ever take the role of a politician.
Glad you agree!
What a different (better??) world if Wallace had been vp when FDR died.
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Putting the communist Henry Wallace on this list is insane.
@@docmagnus 'Communist' - he hated communists. He had a farming business. Why would he be communist? Is being socialist, communist?
c a t No, he didn't hate Communists. He received their endorsement when he ran for president in 1948. Even perennial Socialist candidate Norman Thomas believed Wallace was a Communist dupe.
As for Socialists being the same as Communists, well, I'll let you study the full name of the Communist Soviet Union, and then report back.
Really, you'll need to try harder in the future.
Mr. Beat --- I heard that Wilson was murdered & the "Killer bathtub" is still in the Capital Building. Do you have any info on this? Nice vid, BTW, thanks!
Wallace was my top one. He Came very close to president. What is bothering me is that you said you aren't a fan of socialism. Almost all of Europe is communist by that standard. The US has had mixed market economy for quite a while.
I would just like to know what specific issuess you have with socialism and if you realized how important a lot of socialism is in the 21st century world. I am a social democrat. We believe in a more balanced mixed market economy. Conservatives do what they can to gut social security, environmental research, and any health reform. A healthy mixture of socialism and capitalism is ideal.
I agree with your last statement. In general, however, I think socialism does not help a society grow as wealthy as it should compared to capitalism. The government generally should have a limited role in the economy. However, it's vital the government should intervene to protect our lives, liberty, and property. A mixed market economy often is the solution to this.
Thanks for sharing this. Wow!!
If Spiro Agnew kept his hands out of the cookie jar, he would be on my list. He took on the MSM media of his day. Surprisingly to some, he supported civil rights & gave jobs to Blacks in Maryland.
Sam Bradley Wonder what kind of President Agnew would have been when Nixon resigned. Glad Ford was VP and took over to heal our land.
Yeah I've heard about that. He was all about being inclusive with color and overall ethnicity, and he was quite progressive generally. He WAS a bit coarse around the edges (though not QUITE as much as LBJ), and a bit too blunt where diplomacy might have smoothed things a little. And the scandals... :(
Are we doing the no-21st-century rule? If so that makes it much harder. But I’ll say Mondale, Hobart, Van Buren, Garner, and Bush.
0:45 don’t forget about protecting the fabric of reality.
I love this channel.
In some ways the VP's can be more colourful than the presidents. I wonder if Spiro Agnew would feature in a potential future inverse for this video
Probably yes
I could guess the five most colorful. There's one who, if he's not among your most colorful, you shouldn't be making these lists anymore.
NJGuy1973 one things for sure, much like it is impossible to judge Trump because he is the incumbent President, I would exclude Mike Pence from any best/worst VP list
An interesting video. l learned a lot.
Interesting, personally I would have placed Al Gore somewhere on the list. His push for environmental causes in the Clinton administration was admirable, and it's widely believed his consistent advocacy for innovation & technology helped foster the economic growth and e-commerce boom of the 90s. Just my opinion though.
Yeah, I go back and forth about Gore. Sometimes, I do admire all the environmental activism. Other times, I keep thinking about how much money he has made from it and the hypocrisy. Either way, I do think he heart has always been in the right place.
@Luke DelVecchio Al Gore is a moron. He flies around on private jets and owns five mansions, while preaching to others about global warming. He said back in 2000 that our children may never see snow. Meanwhile we are getting record snowfalls all over the US right now..
Remember when Joey was still just a vice president? He's grown a lot