Free Republic 2nd Qtr 2025 Fundraising Target: $81,000 Receipts & Pledges to-date: $79,241
97%  
Woo hoo!! And we're now over 97%!! Thank you all very much!! God bless.

Keyword: johncalvincoolidge

Brevity: Headers | « Text »
  • Perry's America may seem familiar to centenarians

    08/28/2011 8:37:20 PM PDT · by smoothsailing · 33 replies
    Houston Chronicle ^ | 8-28-2011 | Joe Holley
    Perry's America may seem familiar to centenarians By JOE HOLLEY August 28, 2011 At first glance, it would seem that the 30th president of the United States and the man who would be the 45th have little in common. Famously silent Calvin Coolidge, after all, not only had little to say but also hated to campaign, unlike White House aspirant Rick Perry, an indefatigable campaigner whose tongue occasionally runs ahead of his brain. Coolidge was a rectitudinous New Englander presiding, paradoxically, over a raucous Jazz Age; Perry is a gregarious Texan who, paradoxically, stands to inherit a nation shaken by...
  • Next President Must Live Like Coolidge, Not Obama

    08/19/2011 4:15:57 PM PDT · by Kaslin · 22 replies
    IBD Editorials ^ | August 19, 2011 | The great MARK STEYN
    20 minutes, but he's already delivered one of the best lines in the campaign: "I'll work every day to try to make Washington, D.C., as inconsequential in your life as I can." This will be grand news to Schylar Capo of Virginia. The 11-year-old made the mistake of rescuing a woodpecker from the jaws of a cat and nursing him back to health for a couple of days and, for her pains, was visited by a federal Fish and Wildlife gauleiter (with accompanying state troopers) who charged her with illegal transportation of a protected species and issued her a $535...
  • President Coolidge Speaks to Us from 1924

    12/12/2009 3:09:15 PM PST · by gdzla · 24 replies · 938+ views
    I came across this and it almost blew me away. http://www.archive.org/details/coolidge_1924 Hope the linky thingy works for you. If not just copy and paste into your browser adress bar.