<a href=”http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/14/us/mike-pence-fast-facts/index.html” target=”_blank”>Vice President Mike Pence</a> received a memento from his aides the other day: the engraved chair set aside for him in the White House Cabinet Room, hauled over-the-shoulder from the West Wing and delivered to the Eisenhower Executive Office Building for one of his final staff meetings.

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