At least Warren Harding knew how to get us OUT of a depression.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czcUmnsprQI
Long, but worth the view.
Harding and Coolidge served in an era when it was understood that Business left alone was what built America. Wilson and TR were an aberration and Hoover was the New Way which peaked with FDR and again with LBJ and yet again with the Kenyan. Reagan was a saving aberration.
It should be an Econ 101 text.