There is much to admire about Coolidge. He worked very hard to restrain the growth of the federal government. He gave extraordinary attention to trimming the budget wherever possible, to practice thrift.
Posted on 11/18/2013 5:55:38 AM PST by statestreet
On Thursday evening, October 28, 1920, vice presidential candidate Silent Cal Coolidge invaded Manhattan.
Commencing from Wall Street, his plan was to process steadily uptown, being joined by as many supporters as he might, to finally reach Carnegie Hall, there to address whatever Republican faithful he might attract within the city limits.
The New York Times, for some reason, lacked faith that much might come from his plan.
But as Coolidge advanced ever northward, a full seventy-five thousand enthusiastic marchers joined with him, representing any number of the city’s trades and professions. They advanced through Greenwich Village’s Washington Square and up Fifth Avenue. A segment formed a giant electric American flag. And when the candidate reached Carnegie Hall, he found it full to overflowing. So much so that a young man named Whitaker Chambers (not yet a Communist nor a spy nor a hero) perched himself upon a fire escape to be inspired by his words.
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There is much to admire about Coolidge. He worked very hard to restrain the growth of the federal government. He gave extraordinary attention to trimming the budget wherever possible, to practice thrift.
It’s hard for me to imagine Coolidge as campaigner. The image of him leading a parade through Manhattan, and Greenwich Village no less, very nearly boggles my mind.
Coolidge was Reagan’s favorite president
cripple can you post his l speech when he talks about the stupendous some of 78 billion dollars?
I am at work right now.
Actually the cost of government was a “Stupendous sum of 7.5 billion dollars”.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5puwTrLRhmw
Today those folks who followed Coolidge would be called TEA Party members.
I consider Coolidge to be the political patron saint of the Tea Party.
Here are a few of my favorite Coolidge quotes:
The foundations of our society and our government rest so much on the teachings of the Bible that it would be difficult to support them if faith in these teachings would cease to be practically universal in our country.
No matter what anyone may say about making the rich and the corporations pay the taxes, in the end they come out of the people who toil. It is your fellow workers who are ordered to work for the Government, every time an appropriation bill is passed. The people pay the expense of government, often many times over, in the increased cost of living. I want taxes to be less, that the people may have more.
We must have no carelessness in our dealings with public property or the expenditure of public money. Such a condition is characteristic either of an undeveloped people, or of a decadent civilization. America is neither. (remember, this was 1924)
Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.
Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.
Whether ones traces his Americanism back three centuries to the Mayflower, or three years to steerage, is not half so important as whether his Americanism of today is real and genuine. No matter by what crafts we came here, we are all now in the same boat.
I do not want to see any of the people cringing supplicants for the favor of the Government, when they should all be independent masters of their own destiny
Wherever despotism abounds, the sources of public information are the first to be brought under its control.
I think these beat the hell out of "...when you redistribute the wealth a bit it helps everyone", don't you?
Me, too! I didn’t know that much about this president until a couple years ago. He was a “keep government off the backs of the people” type of president, one which would be ever so welcome these days. I cannot imagine undoing the 20,000+ new regulations that have come into “law” since this president has come into office. The nightmare of undoing it will be the bane of his follower.
For sure one of the most underrated presidents of all time.For some reason, he’s often included in polls of ‘worst’ presidents, when in fact, he was one of the greatest of the previous century alongside Reagan.
As always, the FDR worship is endles. Nobody seems to care that he violated the constitution more times than even Barry Hussein. Him and fascist Wilson always get the glory.
“Wherever despotism abounds, the sources of public information are the first to be brought under its control.”
Coolidge predicted Communist News Network and MSLSD it seems.
Sadly I doubt even most FReepers would accept a hands off president like Coolidge these days. After the storms here in the midwest yesterday you’re sure to see FReepers screaming for action from FEMA while Coolidge felt that government responsibility in such matters should be very limited with most responsibility falling on the individual and on the states.
He truly believed in a very limited president and often signed legislation he didn’t like but the representatives of the people sent it to him. He applied very little pressure to congress because he really saw the presidency as the low man on the totem pole.
“I bet my friend I could get more than two words out of you !” — Lady visiting at a White House function
“You lose.” — Calvin Coolidge
I have a land patent signed by him on my grandparents property in Washington.
If it’s from his time as President, it may be secretarial or a stamp or autopen. Presidents stopped signing such documents early in the 19th century or they’d be spending every waking hour signing.
You know you got me wondering now.
It starts out “In testimony whereof, I, Calvin Coolidge Pres of U.S. have caused these letters to be made patent etc.etc. Given under my hand at the city of Washington the first day of August 1924
By the President____his signature
By Viola B Pugh, secretary
M. P. Leroy Recorder of the general land office
I don’t know if that means it was sighed by Viola or if he actually signed it himself. Your probably right he probably never signed himself.
I did a search for his signature and I think she must have signed for him. Oh well, another bursted bubble. I always thought it was his signature.:^)
Sorry, didn’t mean to burst your bubble. I collect political autographs and learned about the issue of so many people thinking the President himself signed land documents their ancestors had and that it wasn’t logistically possible for them to have signed so many. I forgot specifically which President stopped the practice because there were just too many (it may have been Jackson or even as early as Madison).
You have a better shot at getting an authentic autograph if it was part of a specific request (usually prior to their being President, such as when Coolidge was Governor of Massachusetts) or if written to another prominent person. Official documents can be dubious. Not to say the document you have is worthless, since many do collect those, but it would be worth more if it was an authentic signature (but very few would be, for the reasons I cited).
I don’t have many Presidential sigs because so many are of dubious authenticity.
That’s OK. I Have a thank you note to my mom’s uncle from J. Edgar Hoover circa 1937-8 that I’d ask you about but that would probably lead to another burst bubble.
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