[arthurus]

One parallel is that Coolidge and Reagan both had a solid understanding of Economics. They knew how wealth is created and preserved. Reagan is probably the only President to have had a degree in Economics.

[Old Teufel Hunden]

"Reagan is probably the only President to have had a degree in Economics."

President, Reagan went back to tiny Eureka college (his alma mater) to give the commencement speech in 1982. In the speech, he started off with:

"I let football and other extracurricular activities eat into my study time with the result that my grade average was closer to the C level required for eligibility than it was to straight A's. And even now I wonder what I might have accomplished if I'd studied harder."

And it was lines like this that made him the great communicator...