Mrs. Coolidge — her father Mr. Goodhue was a big Democrat — said Calvin did not run in 1928 because he expected a depression and did not want to be in office under the certain scorn that would result.
I don’t buy it. Coolidge handled a depression in the early 1920’s masterfully and discharged his responsibilities during his term. I think that if his father in law really said this he was covering for Franklin Roosevelt in a variant of the “Blame Bush” trope we have been hearing for years.