I sent one of the inner city pastors I know in Detroit a copy of “Coolidge” for Christmas along with some select quotes from Coolidge on race, rights, and freedom. He sent me an email the other day to tell me that last Sunday’s sermon came right out of the book.
It was about those who speak of their good deeds endlessly vs those who quietly do good without fanfare and the rewards awaiting both men in eternity.
Both Coolidge and Warren Harding are two of the best and most successful individuals to have occupied the White House of the last 150 years (with only Reagan coming close, though even he could not accomplish what they did in cutting spending and the size of government). Harding resolved the recession of Wilson’s in almost record time and unleashed almost unprecedented prosperity for the nation. That was Detroit’s most successful decade and made the city one of our greatest — until those following Wilson’s leftist model and worse perverted it to a nightmare.