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Calvin Coolidge, born July 4: Hero to tea partiers
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Posted on 07/03/2010 2:01:03 PM PDT by JoeProBono

PLYMOUTH, Vt. (AP) -- In the Vermont hamlet where Calvin "Silent Cal" Coolidge was born, folks will celebrate his star-spangled birthday the way they always do....

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To: KevinDavis

21 posted on 07/03/2010 2:50:26 PM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet - Visualize)
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To: Qbert

Secretary of War John Weeks, Pres. Calvin Coolidge, and Asst. Secretary of the Navy Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., at Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, Armistice Day


22 posted on 07/03/2010 2:56:13 PM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet - Visualize)
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To: JoeProBono

The highly gregarious Dorothy Parker was seated next to “silent Cal” at a dinner. She said to him, “Mr. Coolidge, I’ve made a bet against a fellow who said it was impossible to get more than two words out of you.” He replied: “You lose.”


23 posted on 07/03/2010 3:12:42 PM PDT by Jeff F (austinaero; Phoenix11; WaterBoard)
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To: JoeProBono

Inauguration of Calvin Coolidge:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTpqNZjTQX0&feature=youtube_gdata


24 posted on 07/03/2010 3:18:47 PM PDT by Qbert
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To: Jeff F

Despite her reputation as the witty gal of the Algonquin Round Table, DOROTHY PARKER (1893-1967) dismissed the clique as “just a lot of people telling jokes and telling each other how good they were.” They did help her gain a national renown, though, by quoting her lunchtime ad libs and verses in their newspaper columns. Those mordant verses (“Razors pain you/rivers are damp…”) don’t really endure (though they are fun to discover, and certainly I was one of those girls who would moan “What fresh hell is this?” when her dorm-room phone rang), and Parker’s numerous book and theater reviews for the New Yorker and Vanity Fair are remarkable more for their voice than their contribution to modern criticism.


25 posted on 07/03/2010 3:19:30 PM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet - Visualize)
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To: Qbert

President Coolidge Inaugural Parade


26 posted on 07/03/2010 3:22:14 PM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet - Visualize)
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To: JoeProBono

President Coolidge autographing a sap bucket (scanned from my original photo).

From left to right: Harvey Firestone, President Calvin Coolidge, Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, Russell Firestone, Mrs. Grace Coolidge, John Coolidge at the Coolidge Homestead in Plymouth, Vermont, August 19, 1924.

27 posted on 07/03/2010 3:28:16 PM PDT by Jeff F (austinaero; Phoenix11; WaterBoard)
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To: JoeProBono

He’s been a personal inspiration of mine when, as a child, I read a book about him. He was the last president who truly understood what the founding fathers intended. That he is so utterly reviled by liberals (especially those trapped in their ivory towers of academia) shows just how good a man and president he was. Their hatred can be no higher badge of honor of the justness of his actions and his ethic.

Hard work, personal responsibility, thrift, whit, intelligence, respect for the rights of man.


28 posted on 07/03/2010 3:32:10 PM PDT by Hexenhammer (sic semper tyrannis)
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To: Jeff F
Buncha dead typical white people.

BTW, Ford was a Nazi and Edison was a thief. But other than that, a productive lot.


Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

29 posted on 07/03/2010 3:32:48 PM PDT by The Comedian (Evil can only succeed if good men don't point at it and laugh.)
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30 posted on 07/03/2010 3:33:59 PM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet - Visualize)
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To: JoeProBono

Coolidge was a role model for Ronald Reagan. He would have been pleased by that.


31 posted on 07/03/2010 3:34:19 PM PDT by Interesting Times (For the truth about "swift boating" see ToSetTheRecordStraight.com)
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To: The Comedian

32 posted on 07/03/2010 3:38:15 PM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet - Visualize)
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To: Interesting Times

33 posted on 07/03/2010 4:11:57 PM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet - Visualize)
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To: JoeProBono

I read his autobiography a number of years ago. You probably know this already- but there’s actually a passage where he describes visiting one of his female relatives as a youngster. She was smoking a pipe, and he described her in no uncertain terms as being Indian. (Some historians later questioned this account- but I would think it would be easier to prove/disprove with DNA sampling, etc. these days).


34 posted on 07/03/2010 4:13:31 PM PDT by Qbert
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35 posted on 07/03/2010 4:19:00 PM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet - Visualize)
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To: denydenydeny

i agree with you on the jalopies in the front yard and i haven’t seen a horse-drawn haywagon in ages but when you dig a little deeper under the surface of townies and flatlanders you’ll find the throbbing heart of American Conservatism;hard working people and true blue Americans.

I LOVE MY STATE, VERMONT
GOD BLESS AMERICA and I WISH EVERYONE HERE AT FR A VERY HAPPY 4th of JULY (i’m not shouting either) just proud to be an AMERICAN


36 posted on 07/03/2010 4:58:08 PM PDT by MissDairyGoodnessVT (Free Nobel Peace Prize with oil change =^..^=)
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To: JoeProBono

Also Jesse Helms, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, and James Madison died on July 4.


37 posted on 07/03/2010 8:10:23 PM PDT by Theodore R.
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To: MissDairyGoodnessVT

VT is OK, but it’s the people of VT who give us pause! They really believe in socialism and practice it too. Coolidge would no longer know the place.


38 posted on 07/03/2010 8:11:48 PM PDT by Theodore R.
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39 posted on 07/03/2010 9:10:05 PM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet - Visualize)
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To: JoeProBono

Have visited this historic site yrs ago and I think I bought some cheese at a cheese factory in one building.

Silent Cal
Woman goes up to Coolidge and said, “Oh Mr President I bet someone that I could get you to say _more_ than two words.”

“You lose.”


40 posted on 07/04/2010 4:09:10 AM PDT by raccoonradio
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