[John Robie]

He was pretty bad, as was his successor Cooledge.

[John Robie]

Coolidge.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

He was pretty bad, as was his successor Calvin Coolidge.

I won't claim to be an expert on Calvin Coolidge. But I will note that he was the favorite president of Ronald Wilson Reagan.

And that's good enough for me to assume that he couldn't possibly be in the Carter/Clinton/LBJ class. Say nothing of Herbert Hoover and FDR . . .

Judge FDR on his first two terms like all the rest, and he's the bum who kept the Great Depression going throughout the 1930s, and didn't prevent Hitler from dominating Europe by the end of his second term (as Winston Churchill would have done in his shoes - at whatever cost).