Posted on 08/30/2026 5:24:26 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
"About the Declaration, there is a finality that is exceedingly restful: if all men are created equal, that is final. If they are endowed with inalienable rights, that is final."
Coolidge: Rediscovering an American President
(Full Documentary) | 1:06:00
Calvin Coolidge Presidential Foundation | 2.17K subscribers | 100,496 views | July 26, 2024
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I probably should have checked for an earlier posting of this, I just noticed it was posted on YouTube in 2024.
Only 60 years old.
Underrated but one of the best.
Amity Shlaes was a big fan. Good writer.
I visited that cemetery and saw his gravestone some years ago. It looked too new—perhaps someone had stolen or vandalized an earlier stone, or maybe the Vermont winters had just done damage to the original marker.
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He would vomit at today’s Vermont and Massachusetts.
I was ambivalent about Coolidge until I read her book. Now I'm a Coolidge fan, too.
One of the LAST good men to come out of Vermont...
Yeah, Cool Cal was his nickname.
This one ...
Underrated but one of the best.
Agree.
Same here.
Great quotes from a great president, from Vermont no less. Here we are with Bernie Sanders, excuse me while I barf.
SunkenCiv, thank you so much for posting this.
I have been a huge fan of Coolidge for much of my life. I have visited Plymouth Notch three times, and each time it was just great.
I had a funny experience recently, when my wife and I visited the Calvin Coolidge Homestead and Library up in Plymouth Notch, VT. They had a docent who was giving us a tour, and while we were waiting for the group to form up, the Docent, who was apparently some kind of retired professor of history, was talking at length about some Greek antiquity subject.
It was interesting, and I said “Oh, that’s great. You must be a fan of Victor Davis Hanson!”
He got all flustered for a second as his mask dropped off his face, and I could see that he not only knew who Victor Davis Hanson was, he disliked him!
He stammered and immediately realized he did what someone in his position at a Presidential Library for a noted Conservative such as Calvin Coolidge should never have done, and then stuttered “Well, I have used some of his work in my research for my book...” and he left it at that.
He was okay for the rest of the tour, but he had exposed himself as a Leftist, but I give him credit. I listened closely for any trace of Leftism in his tour, but he knew that for his position, he could not let his mask down again, and he didn’t!
Thanks - 4 AM!
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