I met Charles Dawes' adopted son, Dana McCutcheon Dawes, late in his life. He spoke about traveling with his father on the 1924 campaign train. He would have been aged 12 or 13 at the time. Could the boy across the tracks be Dana?

Author of the "Dawes Plan," a failed attempt to untangle the post-WWI reparations mess.

The candidate seems to be in dire need of the attentions of M. Hurles.

Dawes is the only Vice-President to write a with a No. 1 pop song, "It's All in the Game."

In his spare time, he also won the Nobel Peace Prize.

Won the Nobel Peace Prize and wrote a song that later reached #1 on the pop charts. You try topping that.

As for the "hope the train stops in Poughkeepsie" comment, it might well have. This picture is at Grand Central Terminal, which then and now is the starting point for Poughkeepsie trains.

Charles Dawes was also a songwriter. He wrote "It's All in the Game", recorded by Tommy Edwards, which hit #1 on the Billboard chart on September 29, 1958, and stayed there for six weeks.

[Well, in the same sense that Al Borodin wrote "Stranger in Paradise." -tterrace]

He could start by helping the little man behind him cross those tracks.