I Think the Word he Used was "Pitcher"

Weirdest New York Times bowdlerization of the day prize goes to Frank Bruni:

F.D.R.’s first vice president, John Nance Garner, famously characterized the job as not being worth “a warm bucket” of urine, which was euphemized in the retelling as “spit.”

Old-timers will recall that the late, great J. Anthony Lukas made this sort of thing into a literary genre.