[ozzymandus]

Tyrrell did not know Coolidge was a great President? I doubt that.

[gorush]

Coolidge was sworn into office by his father who was a notary public and therefore eligible to administer the oath. Cal was visiting his dad at the time in his rural Vermont home which had neither electricity nor telephone.

[Bubba Ho-Tep]

Hmm. On the other hand, the economy Coolidge created crashed hard just seven months after he left office, and Hoover hadn't done much of anything to change policy course.

Just sayin'

[cripplecreek]

Silent Cal should be adopted the patron saint of the tea party.

[Verginius Rufus]

Coolidge's younger son died in 1924 at the age of 16 from an infection he got while playing tennis at the White House. That was during the 1924 Presidential campaign. That may have contributed to Coolidge's decision in 1927 not to seek another term.

Coolidge was born on the Fourth of July, the only President to achieve that feat.

I've seen his grave in Vermont--very simple with nothing saying he was President (there is a Presidential seal on the grave marker but you have to know already what it is to know that). When I saw it several years ago it looked too fresh to be the original stone from when Calvin Coolidge died--maybe someone had vandalized or stolen the original.

[winodog]

I learned sometime back that Coolidge was a “great” President because he did very little. Many Presidents insist on doing things to make themselves more famous.