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'''Charles Dawes''' (1865-1951) was [[Vice President of the United States]] from 1925 to 1929.  He was Comptroller under [[William McKinley|President McKinley]] and won the [[Nobel Peace Prize]] in 1925 for stabilizing the [[German mark]].  <ref>"... he joined with European representatives to work out the Dawes Plan (1924) for solving the problem of collecting German reparations and fixing the amount." [http://ap.grolier.com/article?assetid=0120710-00 Encyclopedia Americana] </ref>

'''Charles Dawes''' '''(1865 - 1951)''' was [[Vice President of the United States]] from 1925 to 1929.  He was Comptroller under [[William McKinley|President McKinley]] and won the [[Nobel Peace Prize]] in 1925 for stabilizing the [[German mark]].  <ref>"... he joined with European representatives to work out the Dawes Plan (1924) for solving the problem of collecting German reparations and fixing the amount." [http://ap.grolier.com/article?assetid=0120710-00 Encyclopedia Americana] </ref>

He complained about not being able to do much as Vice President.  "I can do only two things," he said to Senator Barkley.  "One is to sit  up here and listen to you birds [senators] talk, without the privilege of being able to answer you back.  The other is to look at the newspapers every morning to see how the president's health is."  <ref> [[Fandex]], Workman Publishing, 2002.  </ref>

He complained about not being able to do much as Vice President.  "I can do only two things," he said to Senator Barkley.  "One is to sit  up here and listen to you birds [senators] talk, without the privilege of being able to answer you back.  The other is to look at the newspapers every morning to see how the president's health is."  <ref> [[Fandex]], Workman Publishing, 2002.  </ref>