Posted on 11/11/2008 5:09:17 AM PST by vietvet67
"That man has offered me unsolicited advice for six years, all of it bad."
So said President Calvin Coolidge of Herbert Hoover, his Republican successor. Coolidge derided Hoover as "Wonderboy," according to biographer Robert Sobel, "because he always seemed to want to change things." Silent Cal, who presided over a legendary golden age of economic growth that featured unemployment levels dropped to the two's and one percent range, had a dim view of what he saw as Hoover's propensity for intervention in all manner of things, including the economy. Coolidge died two months before the 1933 inauguration of Franklin Roosevelt, depriving history of his thoughts on the super-interventionist policies of the New Deal, many of which began with Hoover.
The Obama era dawns well elected on the Hooveresque mantra of changing things. Of a back to the future re-creation of Hooverism and, of course, the New Deal. At the news of Barack Obama's victory the stock market, an institution with a long memory, spent the next two days dropping 9.7%. According to Investors Business Daily it was the largest two-day drop since the market crash of October 1987.
"Wonderboy" is back, with Barack Obama reprising the role of Herbert Hoover.
Understandably, much attention is being paid to the fact that Obama is America's first black president. This is, without doubt, a proud and good moment for the country. It surely deserves a "well done" for getting past race. So too does the winner deserve a congratulations, Mr. President.
Yet in the end, the idea that Obama is the first black chief executive will soon fade in importance with the understanding he is very much America's 44th president.
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Why did Roosevelt win in 1936?
And when everything fails he will blame Bush.
////Why did Roosevelt win in 1936?////
He gave good speeches.
Watch out for 2012.
Is it Coolidge who has all those wonderful Rand-like quotes on economic issues and ltd. gov.?
Civilization and profit go hand in hand.
Calvin Coolidge
Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.
Calvin Coolidge
Don’t expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.
Calvin Coolidge
Duty is not collective; it is personal.
Calvin Coolidge
Economy is the method by which we prepare today to afford the improvements of tomorrow.
Calvin Coolidge
I have found it advisable not to give too much heed to what people say when I am trying to accomplish something of consequence. Invariably they proclaim it can’t be done. I deem that the very best time to make the effort.
Calvin Coolidge
If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you.
Calvin Coolidge
Industry, thrift and self-control are not sought because they create wealth, but because they create character.
Calvin Coolidge
It is only when men begin to worship that they begin to grow.
Calvin Coolidge
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of face within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.
Calvin Coolidge
Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good.
Calvin Coolidge
No enterprise can exist for itself alone. It ministers to some great need, it performs some great service, not for itself, but for others; or failing therein, it ceases to be profitable and ceases to exist.
Calvin Coolidge
No man ever listened himself out of a job.
Calvin Coolidge
Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business.
Calvin Coolidge
Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.
Calvin Coolidge
The business of America is business.
Calvin Coolidge
The government of the United States is a device for maintaining in perpetuity the rights of the people, with the ultimate extinction of all privileged classes.
Calvin Coolidge
The man who builds a factory builds a temple, that the man who works there worships there, and to each is due, not scorn and blame, but reverence and praise.
Calvin Coolidge
The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.
Calvin Coolidge
The right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct.
Calvin Coolidge
There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no independence quite so important, as living within your means.
Calvin Coolidge
They criticize me for harping on the obvious; if all the folks in the United States would do the few simple things they know they ought to do, most of our big problems would take care of themselves.
Calvin Coolidge
Those who trust to chance must abide by the results of chance.
Calvin Coolidge
To live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded to the human race.
Calvin Coolidge
Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing.
Calvin Coolidge
Ahhh, thank you.
It is probable that a press which maintains an intimate touch with the business currents of the nation is likely to be more reliable than it would be if it were a stranger to these influences. After all, the chief business of the American people is business. They are profoundly concerned with buying, selling, investing and prospering in the world.
Calvin Coolidge
As opposed to a press which maintains an intimate touch with “Lesbian Wiccans for Environmental and Economic Justice For All Transgendered Peoples and Other Species Especially Those of Color.”
Most excellent!
As president, Calvin Coolidge didn’t do much of anything but at the time, that’s what we needed to have done.
Will Rodgers
—a great president—
Coolidge died two months before the 1933 inauguration of Franklin Roosevelt, depriving history of his thoughts on the super-interventionist policies of the New Deal, many of which began with Hoover. The Obama era dawns well elected on the Hooveresque mantra of changing things. Of a back to the future re-creation of Hooverism and, of course, the New Deal... "Wonderboy" is back, with Barack Obama reprising the role of Herbert Hoover. Understandably, much attention is being paid to the fact that Obama is America's first black president. This is, without doubt, a proud and good moment for the country. It surely deserves a "well done" for getting past race.Huh? The only reason people voted for him, literally the only reason, was because he was black -- so, no, we haven't gotten past race.
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