Posted on 06/30/2015 10:09:12 AM PDT by newgeezer
Cal was a good man, and a great leader. Common sense is against the law today, anyway........
And credit Harding for letting the Depression of 1920 run its course without gov’t intervention making it worse.
Thus setting the stage for the economic boom of the Twenties.
Ping!
I consider him to be the patron saint of the Tea Party.
A speech on taxes, the cost of government and its relation to the average man.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5puwTrLRhmw
There are around twenty-odd reasons for the boom period of the 1920s. I wouldn’t give Harding that much credit. Lowering the tax rates really helped a good bit. But the arrival of cars for the middle-class, the take-off of radio, rapid arrival of movies, vacations becoming a common thing for regular people, and the vast commercial awakening of sports in America all helped as well.
Great man. He also put a stop to the endless immigration that the public had had enough of.
It’s become kind of a fad now to favorably compare the hands-off approach of the gov’t to the 1920-21 depression, to the interventionist approach during the Great Depression and currently. Books, magazine articles, etc.
I think they make a good point.
Coolidge is one of my favorite Presidents of all time. I read his autobiography. A man of true of character.
A favorite joke had a pretty young woman approaching the president to explain that she had bet a friend she could make him say more than two words. “You lose,” Coolidge replied.
He’s my second-favorite president, after George Washington.
Thanks for that.
More evidence to suggest that many of our greatest presidents would be completely unelectable today. Not so much because of their politics, but rather, because of our ridiculous fixation on the superficial qualities.
(I continue to blame Amendment XIX. ;)
I’d argue Reagan was just as good...
But even Ronaldus Magnus claimed Coolidge was his favorite.
"I don't recall any candidate for president that ever injured himself very much by not talking"
"Nine tenths of a president's callers at the White House want something they ought not to have. I you keep dead still they will run down in three or four minutes."
Calvin Coolidge
Cool Cal ping.
Harding is unfairly maligned, we would do very well to have a President as “bad” as he was.
Coolidge also signed into law the National Origins Quota based immigration reform, which ended mass immigration and and ushered in an era of low-moderate immigration levels that lasted for forty years.
That was one of the great conservative successes of his Presidency, and it is that more than any thing else that modern Republicans should seek to replicate by ending this current unending wave of mass, democrat-importing immigration.
Coolidge beats Reagan easily on immigration. And I doubt Coolidge made such horrible choices for the Sup Court that Reagan did with O’Connor and Kennedy.
Coolidge’s only significant mistake was supporting Harding’s leftist lunacy with the Washington Naval Treaty, which in many ways started World War 2 in the Pacific.
Actually, Coolidge’s sole appointment to the Supreme Court, that of the sitting Attorney General Harlan Fiske Stone, was fairly lousy. He joined the left wing of the court in short order. FDR was so pleased with this “Republican”, he elevated him to Chief Justice when Charles Evans Hughes retired in 1941.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harlan_F._Stone
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