Posted on 08/14/2015 10:05:22 AM PDT by NRx
Coolidge has several generations in the family cemetery not far from the visitors center. It isn't well marked, but they will point it out for you if you ask. It isn't hard to find if you know where to look.
As I recall, he had a teenage son who developed an infection and died while he was in the White House. It was from some trifling tennis blister or the like. Had it happened just a few years later, a common antibiotic would've cured it in days.
You know what Harding did with the 1920s depression panic? Nothing. Of course this was the right move and the country roared back during the rest of the decade.
In 1929, what did progressive Hoover do when the economy tanked? Tariffs, raised top marginal taxes to 60%, and the fed raised interest rates in the Summer before the crash. Roosevelt went further and made it worse.
When historians rate presidents they very often have it backwards. For example, if you believe in the constitution and free markets, FDR and Lincoln should be ranked in the bottom quarter.
Put away your tin foil hat. The reason this is “up” now is because parties from the two families finally agreed to DNA analysis the results of which just now proved that Harding fathered a child by Nan Britton when he was in office. That’s why it’s in the news.
Compared to what followed him, Harding was of sterling character and great abilities.
I remember passing a newspaper & sundries kiosk at an airport. The magazine with a pregnant Demi Moore on the cover was very prominently displayed.
Even known one or two pregnancy models. Niche thing for a few months.
Is it possible that it would a medical miracle of Michelle (Michael Robinson) were pregnant?
H.L. Mencken wrote that it "reminds me of a string of wet sponges, it reminds me of tattered washing on a line; it reminds me of stale bean soup, of college yells, of dogs barking idiotically through endless night. It is so bad that a sort of grandeur creeps into it."
It isn't often Mencken gets bested, but I think William McAdoo said it better.
(Harding’s) speeches left the impression of an army of pompous phrases moving over the landscape in search of an idea. Sometimes these meandering words would actually capture a straggling thought and bear it triumphantly, a prisoner in their midst, until it died of servitude and overwork.
The ornate and lavish visitors' center at Plymouth Notch.
My wife was born in Piqua, her aunt lived in Marion.
But naive. And close to this description from the 1969 movie Support Your Local Sheriff.
Joe Danby: [about his father]
He's got a heart as big as the whole outdoors, but he don't have one brain in his poor old head.
“It is a great advantage to a President and a major source of safety to the country, for him to know that he is not a great man,” - Calvin Coolidge.
Loved your quote in post #33. It really shows the dignity of the man as one of the few 20th or 21st century presidents who clearly understood he was a servant of the people and not their master, which was the thinking norm in the 19th century.
His successor was better.
Woodrow Wilson pales (is that racist?) in comparison to Andrew Jackson.
Of course, American Indians aren’t as favored a minority as Blacks.
Did you visit his home? That is definitely worth a visit. It is filled with original artifacts. The buildings across the street were there in 1920, so when you stand on the front porch, you will have the same view that Harding had when he waged his "front porch" campaign for president.
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