National Affairs: In Denver

In one of the installments of the late Thomas R. Marshall's memoirs appearing in the press last week, were these words:

"One time in the City of Denver, while I was Vice President, a big husky policeman kept following me around until I asked him what he was doing. He said he was guarding my person. I said: 'Your labor is in vain. Nobody was ever crazy enough to shoot at a Vice President. If you will go, away and find somebody to shoot, at me, I'll go down in history as being the first...

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