Silent Cal: An American President
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Fun Fact: Calvin Coolidge, a president of few words, was so famous for
saying so little that a White House dinner guest made a bet that she could
get the president to say more than two words. She told the president of her
wager. His reply: "You lose."
At 2:30 on the morning of August 3, 1923, whil ....
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.... in Northampton, Massachusetts. Slowly,
methodically, he went up the political ladder from councilman in
Northampton to Governor of Massachusetts, as a Republican. En route he
became thoroughly conservative.
As President, Coolidge demonstrated his determination to preserve the old
moral and economic precepts amid the material prosperity which many
Americans were enjoying. He refused to use Federal economic power to check
the growing boom or to ameliorate the depressed condition of agricult ....
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