President Coolidge Speaks to Us from 1924

http://www.archive.org/details/coolidge_1924 ^

[arthurus]

Coolidge understood Economics and Freedom. So did Cleveland and Reagan. The rest not so much.

[B Knotts]

Thanks for posting! If only we had more men like President Coolidge, who understand common sense and who pays for all the plans of politicians!

[fieldmarshaldj]

One big part of the problem was the insistence on using ever-increasingly-larger textbooks that were literally impossible to cover in a single school year (I know, I tried an experiment to see how long it would take — it took two years to cover one book). So you’d endlessly rehash the Pilgrims, and by the time you got up past the Civil War/Turn of the 20th Century, school year would be over. I thought it was absurd the fights over getting “new textbooks” that were updated, because if you couldn’t get through half the book, what was the point ?

[TNCMAXQ]

“To tax the people more than is absolutely necessary is robbery.” That was one of Coolidge’s best quotes.

[hellbender]

I read Coolidge's biography on Wikipedia; he was the antithesis of 0bama. His ancestors came here about 1630, when all they could expect was hard work, cold, and danger; no polygamous socialist Third Worlder students and antiAmerican hippies in his pedigree. He worked his way up through a long sequence of real jobs, including a successful private law practice. He rose to national prominence by fighting a public-employee union, while 0 is in bed with SEIU, AFSCME, NEA, and others. He was against unnecessary foreign alliances and the League of Nations, while 0 is obsessed with world opinion and the UN. Coolidge was for limited govt. and low taxes, while 0 is for completely unlimited govt. and taxation as massive wealth transfer.