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I’d like to know more about CC for sure
Weird , I was just reading about him the other day. I’ll have to check this out this weekend as I’m snowed in
He was called “Silent Cal” due to his taciturnity.
About four years ago, a Siamese cat began hanging around my place. I eventually named him Calvin, after Calvin Coolidge, and we became very close. Unfortunately, I couldn’t entice him to become an indoor cat.
One night, in the spring of ‘24, I said “good night” to him on my doorstep. The next morning, he was gone, and I haven’t seen him since. A coyote probably got him during the night.
Coolidge was famous for not being very talkative.
A woman at a dinner party once bet that she could get him to say more than two words. To which Coolidge replied, “You lose.”
(Perhaps a true story. Perhaps just part of the Coolidge legend.)
Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery. Calvin Coolidge
Ciaphas Cain and decal beat me to the “two words” story. So I will try again with another Coolidge story.
In 1928 the Army asked Coolidge for $25,000 to buy a squadron of military aircraft.
“Why can’t we buy just one airplane, and let the aviators take turns flying it?” Coolidge replied.
I read Amity Schlae’s biography of Coolidge a couple of years ago - quite a good read.
Coolidge fans should visit the Coolidge home in Dixville Notch, Vt. The home features original artifacts, including hte table where Coolidge’s father administered the presidential oath of office in the wee hours of the morning when they learned of President Harding’s death.
everyone at FR should study Calvin Coolidge.
he is a great president and far better than experts credit him.
His speech on the 150th anniversary of the founding is also a must read.