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Overall Rating:2.78 based on 9 ratings
Born in Plymouth, Vermont on July 4, 1872, Coolidge became President on August 3, 1923 following the death of President Warren G. Harding. A Republican, Coolidge presided over the notorious "Roarin' Twenties", a period of great economic prosperity. Declining to seek another term in 1928, Coolidge retired from public life. He died on January 5, 1933 in Northhampton, Massachusetts. (Add picture)

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abichara (60)
04/16/2006
Solid middle of the pack President. He did a decent job while in office. Like Grover Cleveland and William Howard Taft, Coolidge was a conservative in the sense that he did not use the powers of the Presidency to pursue activist ends, like FDR or LBJ. He retired soon before the Great Depression. Here's some trivia for you, in 1927, Coolidge received a visit from a noted Princeton economics professor who told him that the US economy was going to collapse soon due to over-speculation in stock and equity markets. Coolidge began speaking of the impeding problem on various occasions, and his warnings were auspiciously correct. I always found it ironic that a period of occasionally irrational exuberance like the 1920's was dominated by such a taciturn figure like Coolidge. He really didn't match the times, and even he himself probably knew this. Coolidge knew that he was sitting on top of a potential time bomb and decided that now was the best time to retire. It was left up to his Commerce Secretary, Herbert Hoover to take care of the problem.

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GenghisTheHun (168)
04/16/2006
Cal is under-rated. He chugged along in pretty fair shape. The country was sound and we weren't in many if any foreign entanglements.

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Chagoth (3)
07/27/2005
It's hard to seperate Harding and Coolidge because Coolidge was an extension of Harding. A former Reagan economics advisor said this about the Harding/Coolidge administration: In another 50 years, Harding will look much better than he does today. His most sensational move was to name Andrew Mellon, the Pittsburgh banker, Treasury Secretary, which is why the Twenties roared. Mellon was the best Treasury Secretary after Alexander Hamilton. Harding's second great move (which preceded his Mellon pick) was to name Calvin Coolidge his running mate. Coolidge is derided because he didn't advocate Big Government, but he was Reagan's hero. RR was in high school in the Coolidge years, when Coolidge best expressed the ideas of low tax rates producing greater tax revenues than high tax rates. It was Mellon who inspired the JFK tax cuts of 1964 and the Reagan Revolution that followed. The only reason Harding is reviled by today's historians is that he MUST be entombed along with Hoover (and Coolidge) in order to elevate FDR. My thoughts precisely. Coolidge is one of the six or seven greatest presidents in U.S. history. He is likely the most underrated president.

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