Posted on 09/21/2018 7:50:00 AM PDT by NRx
A series of newsreel shorts show President Calvin Coolidge and his family on vacation at the Coolidge Homestead in Plymouth Notch, Vermont in the summer of 1924. (appx 13 minutes)
(Excerpt) Read more at youtu.be ...
That said it also feels like a time capsule to the way most Americans lived until the 40s.
Ping for later viewing.
One of great Presidents of our last century.
A very different character to Trump, but both men were the right men for their times. They were/are both true Patriots as well who know how to get an economy working
Sad we forget how tough life was before antibiotics. Even for the President’s son.
www.shapell.org/this-day-in-history/Death-of-Calvin-Coolidge-Jr
“www.shapell.org/this-day-in-history/Death-of-Calvin-Coolidge-Jr”
That was a pretty gut wrenching read.
Thing was, he didn't do this for the cameras...this is just the kind of guy he was. He apparently liked that stuff...pitchfork in hand.
A politician who doesn't like to run his mouth. Even back then, it was a sensation.
My favorite anecdote with a woman sitting next to Coolidge at a dinner party (I am paraphrasing):
WOMAN: Mr. President, my husband bet me that I couldn't get two words out of you! What do you say to that?
COOLIDGE: You lose.
Just brings a smile to my face!
It wasn’t a photo op for him...it is what he did whenever he went back there, just went to work. He found something that grounded him in it.
They have pictures at Plymouth Notch of him wearing these outfits that were apparently common for farmers to wear, but today, they look completely ridiculous...and he wore them. It is like a big, baggy burlap looking frock, closed at the neck with a tie string like a baptist choir singer, with long puffy sleeves and a funny looking hat, but...that is what he wore when doing the work when cameras weren’t there, though they do have a picture of him.
I admire him greatly.
“There is a recent development... the greatly disproportionate influence of organized minorities. Artificial propaganda, paid agitators, selfish interests, all impinge upon members of legislative bodies to force them to represent special elements rather than the great body of their constituency. When they are successful, minority rule is established…The result is an extravagance on the part of the Government which is ruinous to the people, and a multiplicity of regulations and restrictions for the conduct of necessary business which becomes oppressive.“No plan of centralization has ever been adopted which did not result in bureaucracy, tyranny, inflexibility, reaction, and decline. Of all forms of government, those administered by bureaus are the least satisfactory to an enlightened and progressive people. Being irresponsible they become autocratic. Unless bureaucracy is constantly resisted it breaks down representative government and overwhelms democracy. It sets up the pretense of having authority over everybody and being responsible to nobody.
“We must also recognize that the national administration is not and cannot be adjusted to the needs of local government. The States should not be induced to surrender the management of their own affairs. It does not follow that because something ought to be done the National Government ought to do it. I want to see the policy adopted by the States of discharging their public functions so faithfully that instead of an extension on the part of the Federal Government there can be a contraction.
“The principles of government have the same need to be fortified, reinforced, and supported that characterize the principles of religion.”
—President Calvin Coolidge, May 15, 1926, at the College of William and Mary
It isn't baling hay on a cousin's farm, but it is cutting wood overgrowth with a chain saw and clearing brush on their respective ranches:
Ronald Reagan:
George W. Bush
Sorry, couldn't find the photo of Barack Obama adjusting a window curtain at a homeless shelter. Must have been scrubbed from the web as fake news.
LOL!
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.