Posted on 11/12/2024 2:40:29 PM PST by TBP
IIRC, Coolidge was sworn in by his dad, and not at the Capitol. Trump should do similar. (Yes I know his dad is deceased...)
Trump should keep doing what he’s doing.
“What sets him a part”
Is it just me? Every time someone means “apart” they type “a part” and when they mean “a part” they type “apart.”
As in “I want to be ‘apart’ of it, NY NY.” No, you want to be “a part” of it! Well, okay, I’d want to be “apart” from NY.
People were probably more sane and less commie back then. I wonder if he could pull this off today
“”cutting fraud, waste, and abuse in DC.””
We had the Grace Commission during the RR administration for that reason but I don’t remember much being accomplished...sure sounded good and we had hopes!
“ IIRC, Coolidge was sworn in by his dad, and not at the Capitol. Trump should do similar. (Yes I know his dad is deceased...)”
That’s because Harding died and Coolidge was Vice President.
He was with his family in Vermont at the time and his father was a notary public.
Later back in DC he was sworn in again, just to make sure given his father was a state official.
I like your idea of Trump doing something different, but I’m not sure what that could be.
Yes, Coolidge was VP and was in Vermont on vacation with his family when President Harding died. Coolidge’s father, Frank Coolidge, was a Federal judge. So they just went out on the back porch and his father administered the oath of office.
Finally got around to reading Amity Shlaes’ Coolidge biography this past spring - excellent read of an excellent President.
One way Trump shouldn’t be like Coolidge: don’t put someone like Harlan Stone on the SCOTUS.
Wow! This dive into a part of history I didn’t get at school is really interesting! Thank you, and I hope Trump listens to you!!!! Or at least to President Coolidge :D
Yeah.
It is interesting.
I would like to see President Trump sworn in by US Supreme Court justice Clarence Thomas.
Been there done that
The National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform (often called Simpson-Bowles or Bowles-Simpson
How about William Proxmire and his Golden Fleece Award? THAT could be resurrected for kicks!
Trump seems more inspired by McKinley, the great champion of tariffs, at least judging by what he said in his Joe Rogan interview.
The better question is are we going to help?
I sure hope so, but based on his track record I’m not so optimistic. Remember he created the Space Force, and we now have Elon talking about a Department of Government Efficiency - as if something so self-contradictory is even possible. The name alone is a gargantuan oxymoron 😂
Coolidge was also the last president to oversee a net reduction in the national debt. Those are pretty big shoes to fill, and I’m not sure Trump is up to the task. Especially since he has no intention of making any changes whatsoever to the three biggest debt-drivers: SS, Medicare and Medicaid.
When Coolidge became Vice President, Progressivism was only (then) two decades old and America's first Progressive president had only died just the year prior to Harding's inauguration. Almost the entirety of the United States at that time knew what it was like to live their lives independently and not really need an all-encompassing government.
Coolidge was great but...
Coolidge didn’t have to deal with mandatory spending programs which take up over half of the Federal budget. Not to mention just servicing our debt interest which about a third of the budget.
Nobody is willing to face the fact that we could zero out all discretionary spending and still go Weimar Republic.
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