 | scarletfeather (47)
12/01/2005 | This makes me think of my dad's theory on why my 15-year-old cat sleeps so much:"At least when he does at last have something to do, he'll be well-rested".
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 | abichara (60)
10/16/2004 | Actually, Coolidge said that after his young son died at the White House, all the power and glory of the office left with him. There's solid evidence that he was depressed while in office. However, I do think that historians unfairly characterize him as a unresponsive President in general. He was actually very activist on a wide variety of fronts. His big mistake however was not to head off the speculative bubble that had been building up in the stock and bond markets 2 years before the Great Depression, which Coolidge did have knowledge about. I don't think however that he could have prevented the Depression, but he could have definitely headed off some of its worst impact. The 1920's were a period of excess, but ironically enough, America was led by one of it's most flinty and efficient leaders.
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