The 30th President of The United States, Calvin Coolidge

Calvin Coolidge: At 2:30 am on August 3, 1923, while visiting Vermont, Calvin Coolidge he received the news that he was president. By the light of a kerosene lamp, his father, who was a notary public, administered the oath of office while Coolidge put his hand on the family Bible. Coolidge "distinguished more by his character than by heroic achievement," he wrote a democratic admirer, Alfred E. Smith. "His great task was to restore the dignity and prestige of the presidency when it had reached the lowest in our history ... place at a time of extravagance and lost ...." He was born in Plymouth, Vermont, July 4 1872, Coolidge was the son of a clerk in a village shop. He graduated from Amherst College with honors, and admission to law and politics in Northampton, Massachusetts. Slowly and methodically, he climbed the ladder of politics from Northampton advisor to Governor of Massachusetts as a Republican. During his tour he became a great preserver. As President, Coolidge demonstrated its determination to preserve the old moral and economic precepts amid material wealth which many Americans enjoyed. He refused to use federal economic power to control the growing or to improve the depressed condition of agriculture and certain industries boom.

His first message to Congress in December 1923 called for isolation in foreign policy, and tax cuts, economy, and limited assistance to farmers. He quickly became popular. In 1924, as the beneficiary of what would become known as the "Coolidge prosperity", he recorded more than 54 percent of the popular vote. In his inaugural speech, he said the country had reached "a state of contentment seldom before seen" and promised himself to maintain the status quo. In subsequent years, twice he vetoed bills to ease the situation on farms, and eliminated a federal plan to produce cheap electricity on the Tennessee River. The political genius of President Coolidge, Walter Lippmann pointed out in 1926, was his talent to efficiently do nothing: "This active inactivity satisfies humor and siertas needs admiration of the country meets all business interests who want to be. meets alone .... and anyone who has been convinced that the government in this country has become dangerously complicated and greatly strong .... "Coolidge was both the most negative and remote presidents, and more accessible.

He explained once to Bernard Baruch why he often sat silent in interviews.. "Well, Baruch, many times I say only 'yes' or 'no' to the people even that's too much talk envelops them for twenty minutes more. "But there has been more generous president allowed himself to be photographed in Indias war cowls or cowboy outfits, and the greeting of a variety of delegations to the White House. His temperament and his dry Yankee frugality with words became legendary. His wife, Grace Goodhue Coolidge, recalled that a young woman who was sitting next to Coolidge at a dinner party confided to him that she had bet I could get at least three words in a conversation with. Without looking at her he quietly replied. "you lost". And in 1928, while vacationing in the Black Hills in South Dakota, published the most famous of his laconic statements, "I did not choose to run for president in 1928." By the time the disaster of the Great Depression hit the country, Coolidge was withdrawn. Before his death in January 1933, he confided to an old friend, "I feel that I no longer adjust more to these times."