Comments on: Calvin Coolidge: The Quiet Riot

By: Stick

Stick — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 17:06:02 +0000

Sorry alphabot…as with every president, Cal wasn’t perfect. The Mississippi flood of 1927 was a HUGE disaster. It stained Coolidge’s presidency like Katrina stained Bush’s. Much like Bush with Katrina, Coolidge’s slow response to the flood was a black eye that haunts his legacy. So, I guess we are all human

By: JD

JD — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 15:47:42 +0000

Don’t forget Alice Roosevelt’s famous quote regarding Coolidge: “He appears to have been weened on a pickle.”

By: Sam

Sam — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 15:17:15 +0000

Reagan: Cold War, Grenada?

He didn’t start the Cold War. He ended it. Hardly a disater.
As for Grenada- he did the right thing.

By: airship

airship — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 14:30:24 +0000

As an Iowan, I’m just happy to see someone point a finger blaming the Great Depression on someone other than our native son, President Herbert Hoover, who had been in office less than six months when Black Friday occurred.

By: alphabot

alphabot — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 14:27:35 +0000

Silent Cal was the last President to not screw things up – good economy, no wars, no scandals. Everybody after him has had some disaster or another:

Hoover: Depression.
FDR: WW2.
Truman: Korean War.
Eisenhower: Korean War, Red scare, set the tone for the Cold War, Cuba went communist.
JFK: Bay of Pigs.
LBJ: Vietnam.
Nixon: Watergate.
Ford: Slowing economy.
Carter: Iran, failed economy.
Reagan: Cold War, Grenada, Irangate.
Bush: Panama, Gulf War.
Clinton: Serbia, Zippergate.
Bush: Iraq, failed economy.

Was Coolidge really all that bad?

By: nleslie

nleslie — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 14:00:54 +0000

When Dorothy Parker was told that Coolidge had died she asked “How can they tell?”

By: Colt

Colt — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 13:39:13 +0000

The Great Depression was a worldwide phenonmenon. The collapse of the European economy probably had more of an impact than Coolidge.

By: Piotr

Piotr — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 13:19:34 +0000

Coolidge’s hands-off approach led to the Great Depression? One of the causes of the Great Depression was over-management of the economy through extreme monetary policy at the Federal Reserve.