Notes as VICE PRESIDENT 19281929 BY CHARLES G. DAWES WITH
ILLUSTRATIONS BOSTON 1935 LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY CHARLES GATES
BAWBS ILLUSTRATIONS CHARLES GATES DAWES Frontispiece CARTOONS ON
THE HELL AND MARIA SPEECH 12 CROWDS AT DAWESS ACCEPTANCE SPEECH,
EVANSTON, ILL. 20 AT THE TOMB OF WILLIAM DAWES ON PATRIOTS DAY 44
DAWES AND FRIENDS AT RAYADO LODGE, NEW MEXICO 96 DAWES AND PRINCE
OF WALES, AT OPENING OF INTER NATIONAL PEACE BRIDGE 102 OPENING
NIGHT OF RUFUS DAWES HOTEL, 1914 128 GENERAL AND MADAME PAYOT
LANDING IN UNITED STATES 132 REVIEWING U. S. TROOPS AT FORT
SHERIDAN, ILLI NOIS 142 Above LONGWORTH AND DAWES. Below HOOVER AND
DAWES ISO THE COOLIDGE AND DAWES FAMILIES AT THE WHITE HOUSE 166
PRESIDENT COOLIDGE AND GENERAL DAWES IN VER MONT 216 THE SIGNING OF
THE KELLOGG PEACE PACT 240 SIR ESME HOWARD, VICE PRESIDENT DAWES
AND CAPTAIN MALCOLM CAMPBELL 260 VICE PRESIDENT DAWES AND THE
SENATE STAFF 306 NOTES AS VICE PRESIDENT 1928-1929 CHAPTER I
Evanston, Illinois, June 27, 1928. I HAVE finally determined to
keep some notes while I occupy my present office. Contemporaneous
comment on facts Is almost always the most valuable. What one may
write after an event Is a recollection of it not an ob servation.
Ones recollections, too, may be confused by later events. However,
since I have been neglectful In writing during the first three
years of my service as Vice Presi dent, a natural desire to make
some permanent record of it will lead me In the first part of this
new journal to comment upon the past and the present together. My
experiences In this office I have found far from uninteresting and
unimportant. The superficial attitude of Indifference which many
public men assume toward theoffice of Vice President of the United
States is easily explained. It is the office for which one cannot
hope to be a candidate with sufficient prospects for success to
justify the effort Involved in a long campaign. One s political
availability for nomination to the position cannot be determined
until the nominating con vention has in effect decided upon the
head of the ticket. Geographic considerations sectional political
situ ations which continually change, combined with the 4 NOTES AS
VICE PRESIDENT controlling fact that the nomination for the
vice-presi dency must fit into a picture dominated by the Presi
dential nominee make early quest for the office too dangerous to
attract public men of sufficient stature to justify a serious
aspiration for it. Nevertheless it is regarded at its real value by
public men, whatever may be their assumed attitude. To-day we see
the ma jority leader of the Senate nominated for the vice
presidency by the Republican Party, and the minority leader in a
receptive mood at the Democratic National Convention at Houston,
which has just assembled. June 26 1928. The office is largely what
the man in it makes it which applies to all public offices. The
fact that, the Vice President in the Senate Chamber cannot enter
into debate is considered a disadvantage, yet for that reason he is
removed from the temptation to indulge in the pitiable quest of
that double objective so char acteristic of many Senate speeches
the placating of general public opinion and of an opposing local
constit uency at the same time. For Ms prestige as a presiding
officer, it is to his advantage that he neither votes nor speaks in
the Senate Chamber. Outside the Senate Chamber, hisposition as Vice
President gives him a hearing by the general public as wide as that
accorded any Senator, other things being equal If he lacks initia
tive, courage., or ideas 7 he of course will be submerged but that
is true also of a Senator or any other parlia mentary member.
Whatever may be said to the contrary as anyone discovers who
occupies the office the people hold it in NOTES AS VICE PRESIDENT 5
great respect...
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