HELL AND MARIA! : THE STORY OF CHARLES DAWES


Slept Here." Needless to say, Dawes never played a significant role in the Coolidge Administration.

The New Republic predicted that "It is extremely doubtful whether [Dawes] will again be able to get himself taken seriously in political circles." Another Senator who had witnessed the ill-fated ride of the Vice-President entered a poetic tribute into the Congressional Record:

...when his statue is placed on high,
Under the dome of the Capitol sky...
Be it said in letters both bold and bright:
O, Hell and Maria, he has lost us the fight!

Charles Dawes later served as ambassador to Great Britain and then head of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation under President Hoover. But it is for the excitment his Vice-Presidency brought to the colorless Coolidge Administration that he will be most remembered.

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