He was the Mayor of Northampton, perhaps the “gayest” city in America today.
With the closeness of Mount Holyoke, and Smith Colleges, and the educated classes of the surrounding other colleges I do not doubt it was just gay back then.
I can imagine Calvin being unsettled by it, but just keeping his mouth shut. Yankees such as himself normally just shake their heads and kept it off the streets.
Much has changed in Massachusetts and Northampton.
Good stuff!
He’d be horrified to see the state of our affairs today.
I guess it goes without saying that Coolidge could never be elected today.
Except for Harlan Fiske Stone, he was the best!
Coolidge and Eisenhower...the two greatest American presidents of the 20th century.