Veeps and salutes

Okay, folks, today's silly issue is whether Vice President Kamala Harris broke with tradition by failing to return hand salutes. Answer: nope, but we'll still hear some nattering about this. The Editor has written on presidential hand-salutes in the past (see also this) and will only add that there is even less to this issue than there is with respect to the President, who (unlike the Veep) is, according to the Constitution, a commander. My advice to the Vice: it's always appropriate to nod or utter a word of greeting, or, if militarily inclined, quite simply, "carry on" or "as you were." But that's about it.