Coolidge 1928: Who's his VP?

If Calvin Coolidge ran for president again in 1928, who would he pick as his running mate? Dawes was no friend of his, and Coolidge thought that Hoover was too liberal. So who would it be?
 
Remember back then the Vice President wasn't selected by the presumptive Presidential nominee as he is today. Rather he was chosen at the convention. Otherwise, Coolidge wouldn't have run with Dawes in 1924, preferring Frank Lowden. I expect if you give Coolidge a say in the matter in a '28 run, he may back Lowden again, although Lowden would be 67.
 
I'd go along with Curtis, although Coolidge would certainly have preferred Idaho senator William Borah.

The Dawes/Coolidge rift stemmed from a letter Dawes wrote to Coolidge informing him that he would not attend cabinet meetings (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Dawes), and it went downhill from there. Going off on a tangent, one has to wonder if Dawes, a not-so-hot vice president, would have made a not-half-bad president in his own right: given his outspokenness, might he have been a Republican answer to Harry Truman?
 
Dawes might have averted some of the worst effects of the Depression, although I doubt anyone could have prevented it. I think he would have been more activist than Hoover and more innovative. He could have even headed off Roosevelt and some of the less effective portions of the New Deal.
 
I really doubt that Coolidge would appreciate Borah. Not in 1928. As the OP stated, Coolidge wasn't crazy about Hoover, considering him a squishy moderate. Far more unlikely to see one of this nation's most consistently conservative Presidents favoring the stubbornly progressive Borah as a running mate. He was weak (from an anti-Communist perspective) on the Soviet Union and went farther to the left during the 20s. He eventually came to be a closet supporter of FDR and an open supporter of the New Deal.
 
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