Why Coolidge Is Cool Again

You never know, might be authentic. ;-)

I think it is. He was in the coast guard stationed in El Paso Texas if you can believe that. Some guy had killed an FBI agent and must have been headed to Mexico and Uncle Norman flew some agents out in the sticks to catch the guy. Then Hoover sent a thank you note that I think is his signature.

Quite possibly so given the circumstances.

As you no doubt know, Coolidge even fought the creation of the TVA for years.

Imagine a Democrat or Republican opposing such a public works project today!

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.

Ironic, because a natural disaster that occurred during his Presidency was surely one of the precursors for the development of FEMA.

Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How it Changed America

by John M. Barry

From Library Journal
In the spring of 1927, America witnessed perhaps its greatest natural disaster: a flood that profoundly changed race relations, government, and society in the Mississippi River valley region. Barry (The Transformed Cell, LJ 9/1/92) presents here a fascinating social history of the effects of the massive flood. More than 30 feet of water stood over land inhabited by nearly one million people. Almost 300,000 African Americans were forced to live in refugee camps for months. Many people, both black and white, left the land and never returned. Using an impressive array of primary and secondary sources, Barry clearly traces and analyzes how the changes produced by the flood in the lower South came into conflict and ultimately destroyed the old planter aristocracy, accelerated black migration to the North, and foreshadowed federal government intervention in the region's social and economic life during the New Deal. His well-written work supplants Pete Daniel's Deep'n as It Come: The 1927 Mississippi Flood (1977) as the standard work on the subject. Recommended for public and academic libraries.

-Charles C. Hay III, Eastern Kentucky Univ. Libs., Richmond
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.