[robowombat]

I remember decades ago the most floridly liberal member of my high school faculty dismissing Coolidge as 'a stupid man'. I didn't know at the time Coolidge translated Dante as a recreational activity. Had I done so I doubt it would have changed this dogmatic and self assured man's view but it shows how a certain type of liberal has always thought. To this man, who was a proud atheist, Franklin Roosevelt was a 'Christlike figure'. Stalin was one of 'history's greatest personalities, the world needs more like him.' Anyone to the right of FDR was probably a Nazi at heart wanting to kill the Jews and reinstitute slavery. This man was the first liberal ideologe I encountered. unfortunately he was not the last.

[KC_Lion]

How about we work less for the Government and more for ourselves.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5puwTrLRhmw

[buridan]

Fine post, but Coolidge did not retire from the White House in 1933. That was Hoover.

[GunsareOK]

.....Elected in his own right in 1924, he presided over a nation still enjoying record prosperity when he retired from the White House on March 4, 1933. .....

I think the article forgot about Herbert Hoover who was elected in 1928 and left the White House on March 4, 1933.

[Slyfox]

The very first thing Ronald Reagan did when he got to the White House was order the Calvin Coolidge portrait out of the mothballs.

He wanted to see his favorite president on a regular basis.

[itsahoot]

This man was the first liberal ideologe I encountered.

"It is not that our liberal friends are ignorant, it is that they so much that isn't so." --<Ronald Reagan>

[allmendream]

Check out the Coolidge effect in reproductive biology. Funny.

[Para-Ord.45]

bm

[Andrei Bulba]

why does the article waste my time with numerous W quotes?

or equivocate on the obvious fact Coolidge was a great president?

He was derided because he was a republican. Period.

[driftless2]

All your idiot hs teacher had to do to see an awful president was look at Wilson. When I was going to school, Wilson was universally regarded as one of the great presidents and Coolidge was considered a dope. We now know the reverse was true. Obviously, that’s because Wilson was a progressive...a racist progressive...and Coolidge believed in the sanctity of the constitution.

[YHAOS]

The high school experience you relate is interesting and, I think, typical of the encounters with Progressives we all have undergone. I think their main animus with Coolidge was his devotion to the ideals and the faith of this nation’s founders. One of Coolidge’s best expressions of his beliefs is encapsulated in the following:

“A spring will cease to flow if its source be dried up; a tree will wither if its roots be destroyed. In its main features the Declaration of Independence is a great spiritual document. It is a declaration not of material but of spiritual conceptions. Equality, liberty, popular sovereignty, the rights of man these are not elements which we can see and touch. They are ideals. They have their source and their roots in the religious convictions. They belong to the unseen world. Unless the faith of the American people in these religious convictions is to endure, the principles of our Declaration will perish. We can not continue to enjoy the result if we neglect and abandon the cause.”
. . . . . Calvin Coolidge, “The Inspiration of the Declaration,” Speech at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on the One Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, July 5, 1926.

The reason Progressives would like to forget Coolidge, and would like everyone to do the same.

[tumblindice]

A woman approached President Coolidge and said,
“I have a bet with a friend that I can get you to say more than two words!”
His response: “You lose.”