National Affairs: Precedent & Temperament

Inquiring reporters always buzz around the White House after Cabinet news. Their job is to ask all the questions they can think of in the hope of somehow getting an answer that is really news. In this way, in the course of time, about all possible questions are asked and some of them are answered. In that way it happed that last week a reporter asked: "Will General Dawes, as Vice President, attend Cabinet meetings ?" The answer was: "No; at least, last August, when he dropped in at Plymouth, Vermont, to see the...

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