Ping list to new release, some courtesy additions
I did read Amity Shlaes' biography of him - pretty interesting guy and a fiscal superstar.
The classic Coolidge anecdote:
President Calvin Coolidge was known as “Silent Cal” because of his extraordinarily laconic speech. A famous anecdote tells of a dinner party during which the person sitting adjacent to the Coolidge said: “Mr. President I’ve made a large bet that I would be able to make you say more than two words.” Coolidge considered this proposition carefully and then replied slowly and emphatically, “You lose.”
In contrast to the nasty and vindictive Wilson, Coolidge was singularly kind and polite. With power taken from the Progressives, they got revenge by deriding Coolidge as dull and unimaginative.
Sounds good and thank you for posting this.
I've been to the cemetery where he is buried in Vermont--small cemetery and the simple marker is not pretentious at all, but his stone looked too new to be the original. Maybe someone had stolen or vandalized the original marker.
Interesting how Wilson and T. Roosevelt are both characterized as Progressives but on opposite ends on the Left/Right Political spectrum. Really need to check out the words/actions of both men and see if they’re just different pieces of a much bigger Goal. The obfuscation is getting more obvious. of the overall uniform Goal of One World Rule by the Enlightened Oligarchy for the past 100+ years. As long as there are “Teams” to root for, do We the Peasants ever really notice (or care) how we’re still being pushed to the Cliff regardless of who is in Office and which Party?
I have a piece of his nephews’ plane that was shot down in WW1.