David Pietrusza on Calvin Coolidge

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[Cincinnatus]

Noted presidential historian David Pietrusza discusses America's most neglected great president, Calvin Coolidge, on the August 13, 2010 Glenn Beck program.

[pissant]

I watched that program. Was it my imagination or is Amity Shlaes a hottie?

[cripplecreek]

Silent Cal is now one of my top 5 great presidents in American history.

Its no wonder the left wants to keep him hidden. A 30% increase in America's per capita income. 4 massive income tax cuts in 6 years. Refusal to throw money at a massive flood....or any other tax eating hole. As governor, he broke the Boston police strike by firing them all.

Do the day's work. If it be to protect the rights of the weak, whoever objects, do it. If it be to help a powerful corporation better to serve the people, whatever the opposition, do that. Expect to be called a stand-patter, but don't be a stand-patter. Expect to be called a demagogue, but don't be a demagogue. Don't hesitate to be as revolutionary as science. Don't hesitate to be as reactionary as the multiplication table. Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong. Don't hurry to legislate. Give administration a chance to catch up with legislation.

Calvin Coolidge, the antibama.

[cripplecreek]

Yeah she looks pretty good. Something about conservatives makes them that way.

[Moonman62]

Silent Cal is now one of my top 5 great presidents in American history. Its no wonder the left wants to keep him hidden.

They'd like to have us believe that Hoover was president during the entire 1920's and that life sucked.

[pissant]

Always more fun to roll in the hay with a smart chick.

[Bratch]

Was it my imagination or is Amity Shlaes a hottie?

[NVDave]

Yep. You cannot believe how many people are just flat-out convinced that Hoover was POTUS for the whole of the 20’s.

These same people are also convinced that Hoover was a free marketeer, too. The look at me as tho I’m a martian when I tell them of Hoover’s wage controls and extraction of promises from corporations to not lay anyone off.

To be fair tho, many people on our end of the spectrum are ignorant of how many of the farm subsidy programs they blame on FDR actually started under Hoover.

[devere]

Coolidge was a good President. However his predecessor Warren Harding was even better.

In 1924 Coolidge signed into law the first gift tax along with an increase in the inheritance tax.

[genghis]

it is amazing how little credit collidge gets.
Cut taxes, resist spending increasing keep your nose clean and don’t cause any stupid wars, so simple. the result is peace and prosperity.

[genghis]

there was a huge economic problem in 1920. the government did nothing about it and in 7 months later everything was normal.
in 1929 there was a huge economic problem, the government did thousands of things to “help”.
17 years later things were fine.
i think if we are lucky, in 17 years things will be fine.

[bruinbirdman]

" You cannot believe how many people are just flat-out convinced that Hoover was POTUS for the whole of the 20’s."

The whole 20's thingy perhaps comes from his being Secretary of Commerce from 1921-'23 (under Wilson) and '24-'28 (Coolidge). Then he was elected President. In the meantime, Andrew Mellon was SecTreas the whole time.

yitbos

[bruinbirdman]

OOoops. Make that Secretary of Commerce from 1921-'23 (under Harding).

yitbos

[NVDave]

Silent Cal said of Hoover something to the effect of “He was full of all manner of advice, all of it unwanted.”

Hoover meddled mightily in the ag commodity markets before he started meddling in employment from the the White House. The man was a menace to markets everywhere.