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    10 Reasons to Love 'Silent Cal'

    I suggest Amity Shlaes's Coolidge for further reading.

    10 Reasons to Love 'Silent Cal'

    10. He was a small government conservative, which is probably why he doesn’t get a lot of attention from historians, who lean overwhelmingly to the left of the political spectrum....

    9. Fought against racism. Silent Cal spoke out often against the chronic racism of the South and its party, the Democrats....

    8. A true constitutional federalist. Coolidge’s anti-lynching stance is all the more remarkable because he was, by and large, a man who sought to keep the federal government limited....

    7. Coolidge was quiet, and quite against Washington social life....

    6. Foreign policy. Republicans were elected back into the presidency after Woodrow Wilson’s disastrous campaign to make the republic into a world power. Part of the Republican platform called for the U.S. to stay out of the newly created League of Nations, and Coolidge did just that....

    5. Native Americans. Coolidge and other Republicans were not content with fighting anti-black racism and anti-Semitism....

    4. A team player. Coolidge did not like Herbert Hoover, but he refrained from publicly criticizing him. In an age where loyalty and cooperation are viewed as weaknesses, especially in the realm of politics, Coolidge’s team mentality was refreshing. ...

    3. Stepped down after one term. Unlike Franklin Roosevelt, who continued to seek the power of the presidency long after its burdens affected his health, Coolidge chose to look after himself and his family after his first full term in office, and refused to seek a second term....

    2. Immigration. At odds with the rest of his anti-racist administration, Coolidge’s immigration policy was his weakest link....

    1. Debt. Under the Coolidge administration, the federal debt was significantly reduced (by about one-quarter), even though the Republicans inherited a $22.3 billion deficit from the disaster that was World War I....
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    Coolidge truely understood the role of the federal government.
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    I think his image problem is in part that he did not preside over a Crisis period. The roaring 20's were a great time in America.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Chris View Post
    I suggest Amity Shlaes's Coolidge for further reading.

    10 Reasons to Love 'Silent Cal'

    10. He was a small government conservative, which is probably why he doesn’t get a lot of attention from historians, who lean overwhelmingly to the left of the political spectrum....

    9. Fought against racism. Silent Cal spoke out often against the chronic racism of the South and its party, the Democrats....

    8. A true constitutional federalist. Coolidge’s anti-lynching stance is all the more remarkable because he was, by and large, a man who sought to keep the federal government limited....

    7. Coolidge was quiet, and quite against Washington social life....

    6. Foreign policy. Republicans were elected back into the presidency after Woodrow Wilson’s disastrous campaign to make the republic into a world power. Part of the Republican platform called for the U.S. to stay out of the newly created League of Nations, and Coolidge did just that....

    5. Native Americans. Coolidge and other Republicans were not content with fighting anti-black racism and anti-Semitism....

    4. A team player. Coolidge did not like Herbert Hoover, but he refrained from publicly criticizing him. In an age where loyalty and cooperation are viewed as weaknesses, especially in the realm of politics, Coolidge’s team mentality was refreshing. ...

    3. Stepped down after one term. Unlike Franklin Roosevelt, who continued to seek the power of the presidency long after its burdens affected his health, Coolidge chose to look after himself and his family after his first full term in office, and refused to seek a second term....

    2. Immigration. At odds with the rest of his anti-racist administration, Coolidge’s immigration policy was his weakest link....





    1. Debt. Under the Coolidge administration, the federal debt was significantly reduced (by about one-quarter), even though the Republicans inherited a $22.3 billion deficit from the disaster that was World War I....
    Coolidge did not succeed Wilson as President.

    He did not run in 1928,"I choose not to run." He thought he would be given the nomination as his due.
    This is amusing: He came back to the white House after church. His wife saked what the sermon was about. He told her it was about sin. She asked what the preacher said. He told her-"He was against it."
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    Quote Originally Posted by RMNIXON View Post
    I think his image problem is in part that he did not preside over a Crisis period. The roaring 20's were a great time in America.
    Right, and progressives love to blame him for the Great Depression.

    But he's the one that guided recovery from the depression of 1920-1921 in the aftermath of Wilson to prosperity.

    Now Hoover, he screwed up and FDR's saving grace was WWII. See Shlaes' The Forgotten Man.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Captdon View Post
    Coolidge did not succeed Wilson as President.

    He did not run in 1928,"I choose not to run." He thought he would be given the nomination as his due.
    This is amusing: He came back to the white House after church. His wife saked what the sermon was about. He told her it was about sin. She asked what the preacher said. He told her-"He was against it."

    Right, Coolidge was VP to Harding and became President on Harding's death..
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    He also paved the way for Charles Curtis to become the first person of color to become VPOTUS.

    The D party has perpetrated a fraud with Kamala Harris.

    She was not the first VPOTUS of color, and isn't really even the first 'Kamala' Harris.
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    From Amity Shlaes's Coolidge:

    But in Northampton, these reports were just distant thunder. The real preoccupations were family: Grace’s father was failing, and in late April, he finally died. Coolidge canceled a speech and the Coolidges traveled up to Burlington from Boston. It was a sad but calm time for the couple, and the Coolidges finally had a chance to think about their hectic two years in John Adams’s “insignificant office.” That high society in Washington had not brought Coolidge into its fold was not due to his style of dress, the expression on his face, or his breaches in etiquette, Coolidge realized now. Alice Longworth slighted Coolidge because he represented a threat to the activist wing of the Republican Party and the legacy of her father, Theodore Roosevelt. Mrs. Harding, likewise, was not snubbing them out of pure nastiness; she was protecting her own husband’s patronage. Society ladies of the District had often mocked the Coolidges’ interest in Vermont and Massachusetts. But the ladies were mistaking federalism for provincialism. By talking about a state and its interests, you reminded Washington that the states had made the union. The Coolidges’ difficulties had to do less with personal failings than with a disagreement about what they had come to Washington for in the first place.
    That just before Harding dies.
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    11) He is also the namesake of my favorite state forest (that I have visited personally).

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    Interesting, the Laffer Curve idea originated with Andrew W. Mellon, appointed Secretary of the Treasury by Harding and continued to serve under Coolidge and Hoover. Coolidge in his Dec 6 speech to Congress introduced the idea there. From Shlaes's Coolidge:

    Mellon thought there was more to it all. He believed in what he and a few others referred to as “scientific taxation.” Scientific taxation was simple, Mellon’s team explained. Most people simply stuck with their arithmetic. They took the new tax rate, multiplied it by the old number of sales, and reckoned their loss. Their arithmetic did not allow for the possibility of more sales. Mellon thought lower rates could yield more revenues. The government was like any business—railroading, for example. Coolidge was well familiar with freight rate schedules, and could compare the cost of transporting hay and grain from the trans-Missouri country to the Great Lakes with the rates that covered similar products when shipped in New England. How did a business decide what price to charge for freight?

    The answer was a shipping company always aimed to charge, as the railmen put it, “what the traffic will bear.” If the company raised fees too high, people would not use your company or your railroad to ship their goods. And sometimes a big cut in rates brought many more customers. Such a large rate cut would therefore cost only a little revenue. Sometimes you could lower a freight rate and even get more revenue than you had at the higher freight charge. Then you not only made up what’d you lost on paper but gained extra revenue. In any case, what mattered in all such readjustments was the change on the margin. You wanted the price, the freight rate, to be just low enough that someone would ship an additional box or an additional container, rather than choosing to wait another day.
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