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VicePresident Dawes had stolen the headlines from the President . The things Dawes had said about the rules had been said many times before in the Senate chamber . One President of the United States , Woodrow Wilson , with wide public ...
VicePresident Dawes had stolen the headlines from the President . The things Dawes had said about the rules had been said many times before in the Senate chamber . One President of the United States , Woodrow Wilson , with wide public ...
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“ The Vice - President's room - come to think of it - is an impressive one , ” he wrote . “ Its chief ornaments are Rembrandt Peale's portrait of Washington - painted in 1795 , and said to be his best likeness — and a great chandelier ...
“ The Vice - President's room - come to think of it - is an impressive one , ” he wrote . “ Its chief ornaments are Rembrandt Peale's portrait of Washington - painted in 1795 , and said to be his best likeness — and a great chandelier ...
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A few minutes before he went up to the Vice - President's chair for his first time , Dawes turned to John C. Crockett , for more than a quarter of a century Reading Clerk and Chief Clerk of the Senate : “ Crockett , I am going up ...
A few minutes before he went up to the Vice - President's chair for his first time , Dawes turned to John C. Crockett , for more than a quarter of a century Reading Clerk and Chief Clerk of the Senate : “ Crockett , I am going up ...
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| Title | Portrait of an American: Charles G. Dawes Portrait of an American: Charles G. Dawes, Bascom Nolly Timmons |
| Author | Bascom Nolly Timmons |
| Publisher | Holt, 1953 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 5 Dec 2006 |
| Length | 344 pages |
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