Calvin Coolidge’s wife, Grace Goodhue Coolidge, recounted that a young woman sitting next to Coolidge at a dinner party confided to him she had bet she could get at least three words of conversation from him. Without looking at her he quietly retorted, “You lose.”
One of my all-time favorite Presidential stories. While I still have more to learn about him I loved his abilty to say almost nothing and when he did it was short and to the point. Mottos made out of quotes like "The business of America is business" are from the likes of a man we will never see again in the top spot (you have to play to the media now.)