Fame Is Worth Less Than Service.

Fame Is Worth Less Than Service.

Coolidge's Stat Was So Low; He's Ranked In The Bottom Half Of Presidents. What I Found When I Encountered This Man Was The Leader I Might Like To See Today.

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.

Everybody Should Pay Some Tax, Just As Everybody Should Vote.

Coolidge Was A Pragmatist. He Didn't Start Out With A Tax Theory. But He Observed Over Time That Lower Tax Rates Sometimes Brought In Extra Revenue. The Success Of His And Treasury Secretary Andrew Mellon's Experiment With Rate Cuts Has Been Obscured By Our Modern History Books.