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1. Keep it Cooledge!

   Posted by Alex Singleton on 01 February 2005 at 02:48pm
   
   

2. “If Coolidge was so good how come things went so bad so quickly (October 1929) after he had gone (March 1929)?”

   Because he paid little to no attention to the Fed’s disastrous policies:

   http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0945466056/qid=1107487601/sr=1-11/ref=sr_1_11/103-7196642-3435862?v=glance&s=books

   Posted by N on 04 February 2005 at 08:32am
   
   

3. My favorite Coolidge anecdote is likely apocryphal, but nonetheless illustrates well the personality of “Silent Cal”:

   One day President and Mrs. Coolidge were visiting a government farm. Soon after their arrival they were taken off on separate tours. When Mrs. Coolidge passed the chicken pens she paused to ask the man in charge if the rooster copulates more than once each day. “Dozens of times” was the reply. “Please tell that to the President,” Mrs. Coolidge requested. When the President passed the pens and was told about the rooster, he asked “Same hen everytime?” “Oh no, Mr. President, a different one each time.” The President nodded slowly, then said “Tell that to Mrs. Coolidge.”

   Interestingly enough, this story led to the formation of the “Coolidge Effect” theory:

   http://www.uno.edu/~asoble/pages/bermant.htm

   Posted by N on 04 February 2005 at 08:41am