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Posted on 01/24/2026 11:59:09 AM PST by ProgressingAmerica
Today, The Life of Calvin Coolidge by Horace Green is available. If you remember not long ago I pointed out that LibriVox has the Coolidge autobiography, so it is good that both are now getting coverage on this content platform.
Calvin Coolidge is very likely the best president over the last 150 years, at least I think so. He has the unique distinction of having being the only one who has defeated both the left wing progressives, as represented by the Wilsonians, as well as the right wing progressives, as represented by the Bull Moose. After World War I, anything related to war-time centralized planning was completely dismantled. Nobody else has such a distinguished record in the modern era, it is Peak Calvin Coolidge.
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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.
"Mr. President sir, I told my wife that I could get you to say three words."
Coolidge looked the man in the eyes and told him "You lose."
All of this is free and open source in the public domain.
Meaning its just download and go - the text and or the pdf or audio whatever. There are no barriers here.
His best-known quote (after ‘The business of America is business’) is his response to a woman who bet she could get him to say three words: “You lose.”
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.
“You lose.”
…and copied on Donnie Brasco
One day she just disappered. Cats have a way of knowing that they are dying, and they disappear, just to understand that the disapperance could have been for that reason as well. Ours was getting old for sure.
In a similar vein, a reporter sent a telegram to Cary Grant asking how old he was. Telegrams were very expensive by the word. So, his telegram read: HOW OLD CARY GRANT. Cary Grant’s response: OLD CARY GRANT FINE. HOW YOU?
I read Amity Schlae’s biography of Coolidge a couple of years ago - quite a good read.
The day before Election Day, 2016, I took my Tasha, my 18-year-old calico cat, to the vet because she was sick. The next morning, Election Day, she was sleeping on the living room floor when I had to leave for work. When I got home, I couldn't find her, but I called the vet to ask about her diagnosis. He said that she was suffering from a severe kidney disease and that her life was in danger.
I looked all around the house for her and then found her body in a kitchen cabinet. I had never seen her there before, but she must have known she was passing away and sought out a secluded spot where she could leave the world.
Although I was despondent, my spirits were lifted by the news of Trump's victory later that evening.
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.
He would VOMIT at today’s Vermont.
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