We're now on the 29th day of my daily presidents threads celebrating the 250th anniversary of the USA.Today we have Calvin Coolidge (7/4/1872 - 1/5/1933), who served as president from 1923 after Harding's death to 1928. Prior to being president he was the mayor of Northampton, as well as the governor and lieutenant governor of Massachusetts. Notable actions or events during his presidency include the Roaring Twenties, the Indian Citizenship Act, the Immigration Act of 1924, the Great Mississippi Flood and the Flood Control Act, the Helium Act, the Kellogg-Briand Pact, the Radio Act of 1927 and the Federal Radio Commission, the Ohio Gang, and the Dawes Plan.What do you think of the guy who hated talking?
Why are Americans presidents so fucking boring?
>>18534699got away with causing the Depression but it waited until he was out of office so his successor got blamed instead
Coolidge never recovered from the sudden tragic loss of his son.
i feel the next two threads will be extremely bad ones indeed
>Coolidge was said by Alice Roosevelt to "have been weaned on a pickle." Although he could display an acerbic wit in private, his public speeches, delivered in a nasal New England accent, were invariably boring. He famously said the business of the American people was business and although worrying signs were emerging such as depressed conditions for farmers in the Midwest, "Coolidge magic" held for five years.
>>18534699GREATEST PRESIDENT EVER.WE HAIL COOLIDGE
>>18534800unfathomably based.
>>18534699Coolidge is the most ANGLO looking President, so I like him.
>>18533968>>18534699It's Calvin Coolidge next in line
America's first experiment in mass degeneracy and women's liberation happened in this time.
What was his church background, does his first name imply he came from a Reformed church?
Coolidges are from Cambridgeshire and his ancestors came to New England in about the middle of the 17th century. It may have been an occupational name for someone who was a servant at a university.
>>18535638The Depression was ironically a crisis of overabundance. American farming and industry had become so productive and efficient that there were more goods than anyone could use and wages did not increase to match productivity.
>>18536332The issue there is that affluence encouraged excessive lending and when the demand was not there firms went kaput and the banks had a huge liquidity problem.It was an issue of assuming that there was infinite demand for everything and that the industrial and agriculture booms were immortal.
>>18536332this was typically the cause of most economic downturns in the past, companies over-invested and eventually the bubble brust
>>18536417I think what makes that less of an issue today (why the dotcom bubble didn't nuke the economy) is that we've moved on from the psychosis of the 'small community banker'. Most of the dead banks during the GD were local banks that couldn't handle even a couple local farms going under.
