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Show National Teamwork I , CEKY good American, regarJIess of party affil- iation, must have entertained a feeling of satisfaction from reading the published report of the Iniliil meeting of the ne- ciWnct and learning that President Harding had carried out one of his preelection declarations that, if choen president, presi-dent, he would make the vice preiJent a member mem-ber of his official family. The fact that the president has thus honored his successful running mate, who, as sice president not only is the presiding officer of the senate, but would become the chief executive in the event of the death of the president, would be of no particular importance if It was done for the sole purpose of still further dignify;ng the office of vice president. The action of the president, however, means much more than this. It is eviJence of his announced an-nounced determination to cooperate, through the vice president, with the legislative branch of the government and thus bring about greater teamwork team-work In governmental affairs. It must be admitted that no predecessor of President Harding of any party ever took such a step. Instead, the vice president, as a rule, merely was a figurehead and whose sympathies often were with the body over hich he presided in any differences which arose between the executive execu-tive and legislative branches of the government. Hope might be expressed that this step mean the complete coordination of the various departmental depart-mental parts, with the resultant creation of an effective and businesslike government machine. |