Good News In History, November 4
Good News In History, November 4 101 years ago today, “Silent” Calvin Coolidge was elected to serve as the 30th President of the United States. Undoubtedly the greatest domestic/peacetime President in the 20th century, Coolidge embodied not only the Founders’ vision of the Executive, but many of the most quintessentially American qualities we struggle to find today in our political caste. READ more about our 30th President… (1924) Coolidge, seated in the middle, along with his 1925 cabinet A lawyer from Massachusetts who served as both state governor and Vice President to Warren Harding, Coolidge was considered a conservative and among DC socialites was teased as having been “weaned on a pickle” and capable of being “silent in five languages.” On August 2nd, 1923, President Harding died unexpectedly from a heart attack in San Francisco, allowing Coolidge to assume a quarter-term in office as his replacement. Coolidge brought the executive branch down for a smooth landing from the scandal-…