Fame Is Worth Less Than Service.

Coolidge Liked The Dignity Of The Presidency. He Didn't Get On The Phone Easily. It's Possible That He Banished The Phone From His Desk. He Was Known To Use It From Time To Time. The Person Who Was Hilarious With The Phone Was Hoover. He Was A Real Engineer. He Made A Closed Circuit Phone Where He Could Call The Important People And They Could Call Him, A Government Hotline, But It Was Closed. He Shut Out The Possibility Of Input From People He Didn't Expect To Get Input From.

Europe Unified Its Monetary Policy Through The Euro Before It Unified Politically, Therefore Sustaining Member Countries' Abilities To Pursue The Kind Of Independent Fiscal Policies That Can Strain A Joint Currency.

Coolidge And His Treasury Secretary Mellon Loved New Technology. Like Jfk, C.c. Divined That A New Technology Could Lift The Nation Out Of Its Doldrums; The Only Difference Was That Jfk's New Technology Was Space Travel, And Coolidge's Travel By Airplane.

I Think The Bushes Would Have Liked President Coolidge, Though I Often Wonder What Nickname 43 Would Pick For 30. President Bush Has Great Respect For His Father, And So Did President Coolidge, Whose Father Was Also In Government, Albeit In A Smaller Way.

Coolidge Cut The Budget, And Even Better, Cut It During Peace And Prosperity. He Left A Federal Budget Lower Than The One That Greeted Him When He Arrived In Office. He Managed To Freeze Or Cut The Budget Over More Than Five Years In Office. If You Look At Charts Of Presidents - Nixon, Ike, And Reagan - You See Them Failing On This Score.