When former Vice President Mike Pence spoke in New Hampshire, a state that could prove important to his political future, he handled his boss from the last four years gingerly.

“I learned a lot serving alongside President Donald Trump,” Pence said at the Hillsborough County Republican Party Lincoln-Reagan Dinner Thursday night, calling his term as vice president “the greatest honor of my life.” He went through the standard litany of conservative policy accomplishments — tax cuts, judges, the economic boom prior to the pandemic — from the “four years of consequence,” concluding: “It was four years of promises made and promises kept.”