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As a potential U.S. Treasury secretary, Robert Lighthizer has more than trade policy to revolutionize.

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Modern vice presidents can trace much of their political influence to the broad reforms that Jimmy Carter and Walter Mondale made to the second-highest elected office in the late 1970s.