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Dear George,

...This letter is about your leadership and the way you have conducted yourself as you face an accumulation of problems that no American President in the last 150 years has faced.

You have borne the burden with no complaining, no posturing. You have led with conviction and determination...

The other day I started to tell a group of very close friends how I felt about you and your service to our country...I shamefully choked up, the tears running down my aging cheeks. I was embarrassed, but then I realized that I shouldn't worry if people see this visible manifestation of a father's concern, a father's love...

Devotedly, Dad AKA George Bush #41

-- Excerpts from a personal letter that former President George H.W. Bush (the 41st President) sent to his son, President George W. Bush (the 43rd President), on April 9, 2003.

Here are a few books that are not just general histories of the Vice Presidency, but examine some of the President-Vice President relationships through the years:

•First in Line: Presidents, Vice Presidents, and the Pursuit of Power (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO) by Kate Andersen Brower [2018]

•American Roulette: The History and Dilemma of the Vice Presidency by Donald Young [1972]

•Crapshoot: Rolling the Dice on the Vice Presidency by Jules Witcover [1992]

•The American Vice Presidency: From Irrelevance to Power (BOOK | KINDLE) by Jules Witcover [2014]

•The White House Vice Presidency: The Path to Significance, Mondale to Biden (BOOK | KINDLE) by Joel Goldstein [2016]

And these are even more directly focused on specific Administrations:

•Friends Divided: John Adams and Thomas Jefferson (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO) by Gordon S. Wood [2017]

•Jefferson's Vendetta: The Pursuit of Aaron Burr and the Judiciary (BOOK | KINDLE) by Joseph Wheelan [2005]

•The President and the Apprentice: Eisenhower and Nixon, 1952-1961 (BOOK | KINDLE) by Irwin F. Gellman [2015]

•Ike and Dick: Portrait of a Strange Political Marriage (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO) by Jeffrey Frank [2013]

•The Johnson Eclipse: A President's Vice Presidency by Leonard Baker [1966]

•In His Steps: Lyndon Johnson and the Kennedy Mystique by Paul R. Henggeler [1991]

•Very Strange Bedfellows: The Short and Unhappy Marriage of Richard Nixon and Spiro Agnew (BOOK | KINDLE) by Jules Witcover [2007]

•Days of Fire: Bush and Cheney in the White House (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO) by Peter Baker [2013]

•Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO) by Barton Gellman [2008]

New York Times journalists Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan join “CBS Mornings” to discuss their new book, “Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump,” and how President Trump’s second term is a “fundamentally different conception of the U.S. presidency.” Source link