The
truth was that Rufus didn't like the public aspect of his job. He wasn't his
brother Charles Dawes, who was now vice president under President Calvin
Coolidge. The brothers had been born in Marietta, Ohio, the sons of Civil War
general Rufus Dawes and the great grandsons of Revolutionary War fighter
William Dawes. Their brothers, Berman and Henry, would distinguish themselves
in business, but Charles Dawes was different. He had won the Nobel Prize in
1925 and helped settle World War I with a reparations plan that would go down history
as the Dawes Plan.
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Charles
had even penned a popular tune, "Melody in A Major." Rufus and
Charles had no way of knowing that the song would be retitled "It's All in
the Game" and become a number one hit in 1958 when Tommy Edwards recorded
it with Carl Sigman's lyrics. Charles Dawes would be the only vice president in
history to have a number one pop hit.
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William Hazelgrove ?"Al Capone & The 1933 World's Fair"
(2017)
