Easy Money for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
Here’s a trivia question: Who’s the only head of a government agency credited with writing a No. 1 song on the Billboard charts? By Readers Aug. 16, 2023 4:02 pm ET Former Vice President Charles G. Dawes in Cleveland, June 9, 1936. Photo: George R. Skadding/Associated Press If we are going to debate the proper “hanging” place for portraits of the nation’s former comptrollers of the currency (“Government Agencies Bristle Over Who Owns Portrait of Hugh,” Page One, Aug. 9), then the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame has a righteous claim for Charles Dawes. Mr. Dawes was the 10th U.S. comptroller. He also was a polymath, Calvin Coolidge’s vice president, a Nobel Peace Prize winner and the only head of a government agency credited with writing a No. 1 song on the Billboard charts, “It’s All in the Game.” H. Rodgin Cohen
Former Vice President Charles G. Dawes in Cleveland, June 9, 1936.
Photo: George R. Skadding/Associated Press
If we are going to debate the proper “hanging” place for portraits of the nation’s former comptrollers of the currency (“Government Agencies Bristle Over Who Owns Portrait of Hugh,” Page One, Aug. 9), then the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame has a righteous claim for Charles Dawes.
Mr. Dawes was the 10th U.S. comptroller. He also was a polymath, Calvin Coolidge’s vice president, a Nobel Peace Prize winner and the only head of a government agency credited with writing a No. 1 song on the Billboard charts, “It’s All in the Game.”
H. Rodgin Cohen
Senior chairman, Sullivan & Cromwell
New York
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