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!
One way Trump shouldn’t be like Coolidge: don’t put someone like Harlan Stone on the SCOTUS.
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.
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.
If anyone wishes to deny their truth [of the Founders], the only direction in which he can proceed historically is not forward, but backward toward the time when there was no equality, no rights of the individual, no rule of the people. Those who wish to proceed in that direction cannot lay claim to progress. They are reactionary. Their ideas are not more modern, but more ancient, than those of the Revolutionary fathers.—Calvin Coolidge, on the 150th anniversary
... of the Declaration of Independence, 1926
Thanks to John F. Kennedy.
Executive Order 10988 issued by President John F. Kennedy on January 17, 1962, granted federal employees the right to collective bargaining.