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The Bear's Lair: How would [Calvin] Coolidge vote?
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| 2-9-04
| Martin Hutchinson
Posted on 02/27/2004 9:43:32 AM PST by GraniteStateConservative
Edited on 07/12/2004 3:41:19 PM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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WASHINGTON, Feb. 9 (UPI) -- The George W. Bush administration's 2004 Budget announced last week aroused the ire of many conservatives and led me to wonder: if that archetypal small government Republican Calvin Coolidge were brought back to us in 2004, which way would he vote?
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; Politics/Elections; US: Vermont
KEYWORDS: biggovernment; calvincoolidge
To: GraniteStateConservative
I love Coolidge. He gets great treatment from us in our forthcoming U.S. History book. But, while he was right on budgets, he supported the misguided "Washington Conference" arms agreement, and for a time seems to have bought into the League of Nations-type of feel-good foreign policy. Thankfully, he came to his senses, and by the end of his term was much more "interventionist" than earlier.
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posted on
02/27/2004 10:30:12 AM PST
by
LS
(CNN is the Amtrack of news.)
To: LS
"He looks like he was weaned on a pickle."
---Dorothy Parker
Luckily, the pictures of Coolidge in full indian head dress were less ridiculous than Dukakis in a tank.
Coolidge came to national fame by busting a police strike.
Good man.
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posted on
02/27/2004 3:30:52 PM PST
by
gcruse
(http://gcruse.typepad.com/)
To: gcruse
My favorite Coolidge story was when a dinner guest said, "Mr. President, I bet you I can make you say more than three words" and Coolidge replied, "You lose," and left.
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posted on
02/28/2004 6:20:32 AM PST
by
LS
(CNN is the Amtrack of news.)
To: LS
LOL I remember that.
Cal undergoverned. He slept late and took naps. Compassionate conservatism would have been anathema to CC.
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posted on
02/28/2004 11:03:21 AM PST
by
gcruse
(http://gcruse.typepad.com/)
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