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    Opinion maker: Melinda Stibal  Nov 22, 2009
    There have been at least six previous US Presidents who had black ancestors: Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, Abraham Lincoln, Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, and Dwight Eisenhower, and white was the race that was listed. " More Facts wrote on Nov 19, 2009 10:22 AM:" I know of very few white citizens rushing to claim their half of this man who is rapidly putting our great country into bankruptcy. (The Herald-Palladium)

    MHS Drama Club to present Up the Down Staircase  Nov 20, 2009
    Modern-day Calvin Coolidge High School has a new addition to its teaching staff. The young, idealistic Sylvia Barrett can t wait to inspire her students to love learning. (Marshfield Mariner, MA)

    Enemy of the State  Nov 17, 2009
    Other presidents who fare well by Higgs s standards include one of the greats, George Washington, and if not Ronald Reagan at least Reagan s own favorite occupant of the Oval Office, Calvin Coolidge. Higgs seconds Henry Mencken s wry epitaph for Silent Cal: There were no thrills while he reigned, but neither were there any headaches. (The American Conservative)

    Crowd blankets Gardens symphony  Nov 12, 2009
    It was dedicated by President Calvin Coolidge Feb. 29 of that year. Bok died 11 months later during a return visit to Lake Wales and is buried at the foot of the tower. (Lake Wales News, FL)

    Military Milestones from the Birth of the Marines to the First Jet Fight  Nov 11, 2009
    Calvin Coolidge will issue a congressionally authorized proclamation calling for the display of U.S. flags on all government buildings to remember Armistice Day. In 1938, Pres. (Human Events Online)

    Golf Course Review - The Homestead (cascades/old Courses)  Oct 30, 2009
    Throughout it's history, The Homestead has hosted presidents, heads of state, celebrities and even the Japanese during World War II. From Thomas Jefferson, William Howard Taft, Woodrow Wilson, Calvin Coolidge and Lyndon Johnson to future presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt, Dwight Eisenhower, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford and Ronald Reagan. Many resorts come and go, but the heritage and splendor of The Homestead will live on forever. (ABC 7 News, DC)

    Complete On the Trail updates »  Oct 21, 2009
    Oct. 20, Washington, Calvin Coolidge H.S.Scouts Grade: 76Position Rank: 94. Mountaineers on top for D.C. prospect Avery WilliamsAthlete Avery Williams (Washington, D.C./Coolidge) told ESPN affiliate Web site EerSports. (ESPN -- Recruiting)

    Jenkins: Rely on fact checkers to get to the bottom of it  Oct 11, 2009
    H.L. Mencken said of President Calvin Coolidge: He slept more than any other president, whether by day or night. Nero fiddled, but Coolidge only snored. (Longview Daily News, WA)

    Thinking Christian: Defending the cross  Oct 2, 2009
    One of the most prominent markers, the Canadian Cross of Sacrifice, stands proudly in Arlington National Cemetery in Washington, D.C. President Calvin Coolidge accepted this cross from Canadian Prime Minister William Lyon McKenzie King as a memorial to men and women who died in armed conflicts, not as a religious symbol. But under the ACLUs case analysis, this beautiful cross, which has merely sought to honor the fallen since its dedication in 1927, would be torn down along with hundreds... (Carlisle Sentinel, PA)

    City under siege  Sep 6, 2009
    Governor Calvin Coolidge fired every officer who walked off the job, the National Guard was mobilized to keep order, and pistol-toting citizens were hired to protect stores. Nine people were killed in the chaos, at least two by the National Guard, and hundreds were injured before order was restored three days after the strike began. (Boston Globe)

    IRS would become Obamacare's enforcer...  Sep 4, 2009
    WE NEED TO TAKE AMERICA BACK-AWAY FROM THE PEOPLE DESTROYING OUR COUNTRY."IT IS!!! Sept. 12...... We have over 9 buses (Charter) coming up from Greenville SC (thats about 75 people per bus!) furryblackbush 00004000 Sep 3, 2009 LOCK and LOAD.... People. Its time to get it on!!! BuckFarack Sep 3, 2009 Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery. Calvin Coolidge rc Sep 3, 2009 RE: James AndersonSep 3, 2009I woud how many new prisions will have to be built for those who... (The Drudge Report)

    • COLUMN: The wreck of the I.B. Perrine  Sep 4, 2009
    Brigham Young, William Borah, Joseph Smith, Chief Joseph, Davy Crockett, Annie Oakley, Betsy Ross, Calvin Coolidge, Samuel Colt, Zane Grey and Knute Rockne, among many others, had maritime namesakes. The keel of the Perrine was laid at the Todd Shipyard Corp. in Houston on Oct. 18, 1944, completed a month later, launched on Nov. 30, christened with water from Blue Lakes, and promptly turned over to the Greek Navy - remarkable, since there was no actual Greece at the time (the country had been... (Burley South Idaho Press, ID)

    Health care fearmongers are shameful  Sep 3, 2009
    Calvin Coolidge once said, "The business of America is business." And his statement is remembered because it is so patently ridiculous. " xdfred wrote on Sep 2, 2009 8:33 AM:" Phil wrote on Sep 2, 2009 7:50 AM. (Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier)

    Click to read:Poll: More Wary of Obama on Health Care  Sep 2, 2009
    "... ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Actually, I think that James Buchanan, the 15th President, was probably the worst president in US history. The Three main accomplishments during his presidency was A. Trying to get Kansas admitted as a slave state. B. Ignored a depression called the panic of 1857. C. And, when the first group of southern states announced their secession, did not take or attempt to take any action to remedy the situation. I think that... (CBS News)

    Do you have any good advice for students preparing to return to school?  Sep 1, 2009
    Glad to have education wrote on Aug 31, 2009 12:27 PM:" 1) Your reap what you sow. You are responsible for your own life. Much of what you will get out of life, will be a result of your own effort.2) The world owes you nothing. Work as though everything depends on you, pray as if everything depends on God3) Your education won't guarantee success, but will certainly improve your chances for success.4) Remember the words of Calvin Coolidge about "Persistence" Nothing in the world can take the... (Klamath Falls Herald & News, OR)

    Catching up with Joshua Ford  Aug 29, 2009
    By SOR AdministratorDate: Aug 28, 2009 The 63 195 lb. Calvin Coolidge WR is excited and highly prepared for the up-coming season which begins tomorrow. Joshua Ford is ranked the number 2 receiver in D.C. behind teammate, Martize Barr who is also very talented. (RutgersInsider.com)

    Tracing Welsh Ancestry  Aug 27, 2009
    Some well known Welsh descendants in America are actress Bette Davis, actor Humphrey Bogart, explorers Daniel Boone and Meriwether Lewis, authors Sinclair Lewis and Jack London, comedian Bob Hope and U. S. presidents James Madison, John Adams, John Quincy Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, James Monroe, Calvin Coolidge and current President Barack Obama. The copyright of the article Tracing Welsh Ancestry in is owned by. (Suite101.com)

    ‘View From the Terrace’ considers works of Charles Hopkinson  Aug 23, 2009
    In 1919, he traveled to the Versailles Peace Conference with several other artists (Edmund Tarbell and Cecilia Beaux among them) to paint the dignitaries there, and he also painted Calvin Coolidge, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and a parade of Harvard University higher-ups. Then, he painted brash, lilting watercolors shouldering their way into modernism, mostly seascapes made on site at Sharksmouth. (Boston Globe)

    Letter: Healthcare reform needs to happen now  Aug 22, 2009
    And one of the first health insurance programs proposed at the state level was when Calvin Coolidge was lieutenant governor of Massachusetts. I think 60 years of discussion at the national level and 100 at the state level are more than enough. (North Andover Citizen, MA)

    When the Rich Get Poorer, Look Out Below  Aug 22, 2009
    Calvin Coolidge said it best: Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong. Mr. Skousen is a renowned financial economist, author and university professor. (Human Events Online)

    The Prince of Darkness as a Beacon of Dissent  Aug 19, 2009
    Novak has a different standard, which involves living up to the oath of office and not messing up the country, which is why Calvin Coolidge is his favorite president. One great president whom Novak dislikes immensely is Teddy Roosevelt. (Townhall.com)

    Obama Birth Flap Reopens Older Controversy  Aug 18, 2009
    Known as Vermont's "other president" - Calvin Coolidge was born in Vermont - Arthur was the son of a Baptist minister whose first assignment was this small town (pop. 1,916) in the heart of northern Vermont dairy country. (CBS News)

    Obama birthplace flap evokes Arthur debate  Aug 17, 2009
    Arthurs family moved oftenKnown as Vermont's "other president" Calvin Coolidge was born in Vermont Arthur was the son of a Baptist minister whose first assignment was this small town (pop. 1,916) in the heart of northern Vermont dairy country. (MSNBC -- Politics)

    Chester Arthur rumor still lingers in Vermont  Aug 17, 2009
    Known as Vermont s other president - Calvin Coolidge was born in Vermont - Arthur was the son of a Baptist minister whose first assignment was this small town of 1,916 people in the heart of northern Vermont dairy country. He was born Oct. 5, 1829, but later in life, he lied about the year. (Boston Globe)

    DJ making waves in state Senate  Aug 15, 2009
    It was more Calvin Klein than Calvin Coolidge. I'm a little shocked that the government would want someone like me, Sealey was quoted as saying, understating the sentiment of many in Albany. (Auburn Citizen, NY)

    Religion in Today's World: Doing the right thing  Aug 12, 2009
    By Richard Kropf Tuesday, August 11, 2009 10:53 AM EDT In 1925, President Calvin Coolidge famously said that The business of the American people is business. And today, nearly a century later with our country in a gridlock over health care reform, perhaps never has Coolidge s observation proven more true. (Gaylord Herald Times, MI)

    Holcim closing Wednesday  Aug 9, 2009
    MacNider was commander of the American Legion and was assistant secretary of war under President Calvin Coolidge and was a minister to Canada under President Herbert Hoover. In 1933 he was a candidate for the Republican nomination for vice president but did not win. (Mason City Globe-Gazette, IO)

    Town reunions get roughed up  Aug 9, 2009
    Tractor rides and a barbecue to benefit the Fire Department were part of the attraction at the festivities held at the Calvin Coolidge State Historic Site ... In a town that has changed little since presidential native son Calvin Coolidge was a boy, Plymouth recently featured sheep-shearing, theatrics, cheese-making, and even a chocolate cake to die for, said Sandy Gregg, who owns an inn in the town. (Boston Globe)

    Sen. Sessions: Sotomayor Rulings Too Subjective  Aug 7, 2009
    "Our 30th President, Calvin Coolidge, said of the Constitution that [n]o other document devised by the hand of man ever brought so much progress and happiness to humanity. The good it has wrought can never be measured. And he was right. "That document has given us blessings no people, of any country, has ever known. Which is why real compassion is found not in the empathy standard but in following the Constitution. (Newsmax)

    Barr Discusses Top 2  Aug 4, 2009
    By SOR AdministratorDate: Aug 3, 2009 Electrifying WR Martize Barr of Calvin Coolidge HS (DC) is a highly productive receiving threat. The 3 FBS programs that he has been receiving the most attention from are Rutgers, Kansas and New Mexico although 2 of those programs have taken the lead in the recruitment of his services. (RutgersInsider.com)

    11 Things: Obscure presidential nicknames  Jul 31, 2009
    The Sphinx of the Potomac (Calvin Coolidge). Presumably not chosen for Coolidge's resemblance to the sphinx, which is, of course, a lion with a human head. (San Francisco Chronicle)

    Effects of Isolationism Between the...  Jul 24, 2009
    The Calvin Coolidge administration represented the height of laissez faire in American business. According to Coolidge, business should be unhampered and free. (Suite101.com)

    Steinway White House Pianos Pay Tribute to America  Jul 18, 2009
    The "Gold Grand" was presented to the White House, and President Theodore Roosevelt accepted the $18,000 Steinway "on behalf of the nation." The piano served through the administrations of Theodore Roosevelt, William H. Taft, Woodrow Wilson, Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover, and Franklin Roosevelt; it was then donated to the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History. The second White House piano was built and presented to President Franklin Roosevelt in 1938... (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)

    FAMOUS BIRTHDAY / Calvin Coolidge  Jul 17, 2009
    President Calvin Coolidge (wearing a straw hat and standing at right by the car) enjoys a carillon concert on Cohasset Common in August 1925 ... Calvin Coolidge: July 4, 1872-Jan ... Vice-President John Calvin Coolidge was in Vermont when news of President Harding s sudden death reached the family home. (Cohasset Mariner, MA)

    The next conservative thinkers  Jul 12, 2009
    The business of America is business, Calvin Coolidge famously declared, and the business of government was to get out of the way. And then came last fall, when a Republican administration committed $700 billion in government money to prop up financial companies that had, by any free-market definition, already failed. (Boston Globe)

    The North Koreans really are a little bit nuts  Jul 9, 2009
    On terse, we can t forget Silent Calvin Coolidge when the lady seated next to him at a dinner party told him she had a bet she could get him to say more than two words. You lose. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Opinion)

    Tant: 'True patriotism' can be tough call  Jul 4, 2009
    Though three chief executives have died on July 4, only one American president was born on that day: Calvin Coolidge, the 30th president, was born July 4, 1872. When the United States celebrated its bicentennial on July 4, 1976, I was on the scene in Washington, D.C., as a million-strong multitude celebrated America's 200th birthday with music, family fun and a dazzling fireworks display that old John Adams would have loved. (Athens Banner-Herald)

    FOURTH OF JULY EVENTS  Jul 3, 2009
    Calvin Coolidge, the 30th president, was born in Vermont on July 4, 1872. Some July 4th statistics, thanks to the U.S. Census Bureau. (Green Valley News & Sun, AZ)

    Photographer for Obama Delights a Kent Audience  Jul 3, 2009
    "When I think of presidential photographs, I think of Calvin Coolidge with that Indian headdress on," he continued, remarking on the contrast of "that stone mountain man with an Indian headdress." "Then there was Herbert Hoover with his stiff white collar," he continued. "When you saw that picture, you knew exactly who he was." Hoover was followed by the ebullient Franklin Roosevelt, who propelled the nation through the Depression by the power of his personality, a personality that carefully hid... (Litchfield County Times, CT)

    Time To "Bail Out" Michael Jackson's Creditors?  Jun 30, 2009
    The last time was Calvin Coolidge. That and you can probably assume that, since everyone else is doing it, we have more morons than you think we do in this nation. (Townhall.com)

    National Personnel Records Center Opens Agency Civilian Personnel Records to the Public  Jun 22, 2009
    Among the records are the files of prominent individuals who worked for the federal government, such as Walt Disney, Ansel Adams, Eliot Ness, Calvin Coolidge, J. Edgar Hoover, Gifford Pinchot, Walker Evans, and Albert Einstein. Ronald L. Hindman, Director of NPRC characterized these records "as a veritable treasure-trove of information for researchers and genealogists." He continued, "There are records from more than one hundred government agencies now available for discovery. They showcase the... (Saint Louis Front Page)

    Kirk Hardcastle column: Happy Father's Day  Jun 21, 2009
    President Calvin Coolidge supported the idea in 1924 and a national committee was formed in the 1930s by trade groups in order to legitimize the holiday. But it wasn t made a federal holiday until President Lyndon Johnson issued a proclamation in 1966. (Mason City Globe-Gazette, IO)

    Flag Day ceremony set today  Jun 16, 2009
    President Woodrow Wilson, in 1916 and later President Calvin Coolidge, issued proclamation that called for June 14 to be observed as National Flag Day. But the official designation did not come until Aug. 3 1949, when Congress approved the national observance and President Harry Truman signed it into law. (Ontario Argus Observer, OR)

    American Presidents' Religious Affi...  Jun 5, 2009
    John F. Kennedy was the only Roman Catholic and Calvin Coolidge the only Congregationalist. Religious Affiliation in Political Families. (Suite101.com)

    Old Coyote, Jefferson vie for Crow post  Jun 4, 2009
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    Click for Full Story  Jun 2, 2009
    On This Date:In 1897, Mark Twain, 61, was quoted by the New York Journal as saying from London that "the report of my death was an exaggeration."In 1924, Congress passed a measure that was then signed by President Calvin Coolidge granting American citizenship to all U.S.-born American Indians. In 1941, baseball's "Iron Horse," Lou Gehrig, died in New York of a degenerative disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis; he was 37. (KWTX.com, TX)

    Old building, new look at State Game Lodge  Jun 2, 2009
    President Calvin Coolidge spent part of the summer of 1927 at the Game Lodge, and President Dwight Eisenhower stayed there in 1953. Grace Coolidge Creek was named for President Coolidge s wife, Grace. (Rapid City Journal, SD)

    Where Boston's the backdrop  May 31, 2009
    Set in 1919, "The Given Day," Lehane's first new novel since 2003, tackles the Spanish influenza pandemic, the Boston Police strike, the effects of the Great Molasses Flood, anarchy and terrorism, racism, baseball, and even the events that thrust Massachusetts Governor Calvin Coolidge into the national consciousness. It is almost exhausting just thinking about it. (Boston Globe)

    Crow Tribe to hold primary for vice chairmanship  May 29, 2009
    The Montana Standard. The Montana Standard. (Montana Standard, MT)

    Past is present in their minds  May 28, 2009
    Governor Calvin Coolidge fired the lot of them, hired a bunch of scabs, gave the scabs the raises that had been promised to the real cops, and used what was a very popular stance with the public to eventually find his way to the White House. Mary McAleese, the president of Ireland, got on much better with one of Coolidge's successors, Deval Patrick, as they exchanged gifts and small talk in the governor's office yesterday. (Boston Globe)

    Council on Aging Notes  May 23, 2009
    Calvin Coolidge, a village tour, a stop at the Vermont Country Store & lunch on your own on our way home. Cost: Double $260; Single $310. (Belmont Citizen Herald, MA)

    Receiver MVP hopes for Terps offer  May 21, 2009
    This Calvin Coolidge High School standout receiver took home MVP honors at this month's Big Time Showcase combine at Rutgers, and now he's hoping for a Terps offer next. To continue reading this article you must be a member. (Maryland Sports -- Rivals.com)

    Warren G. Harding  May 19, 2009
    Harding was followed by Calvin Coolidge, as mediocre as the 29th President had been. Sources. (Suite101.com)

    Getting the small things right  May 17, 2009
    With his death came the death of a special era in American letters, for Mr. Lathem was the center of a remarkable universe that included such disparate figures as Robert Frost, Dr. Seuss, Wallace Stegner, Erskine Caldwell, Paul Sample, and members of the Calvin Coolidge family. He produced about a hundred books. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)

    Martize Sets the Barr High  May 13, 2009
    Date: May 12, 2009 This year Calvin Coolidge High has a large contingent of upcoming seniors who are legitimate Division 1 prospects. Regarded as the top Wide Receiver in the DC Metro area Martize Barr certainly fits into that category. (RutgersInsider.com)

    Read the 'News Watch' transcript  May 12, 2009
    Comedian Wanda Sykes, the headliner, "Every president since Calvin Coolidge has attended this event." Check our web site, FOXnews. com for the highlights. (Fox News)

    Obama's press dinner debut  May 11, 2009
    The first president to attend was Calvin Coolidge back in 1924. This year's event, on Saturday, is attracting particular attention given that it is the first during Barack Obama's presidency. (BBC News -- Americas)

    Obama charms the A-list but his critics aren't laughing  May 11, 2009
    Every president since Calvin Coolidge (1923-29) has taken part in the dinner. AFP. (Sydney Morning Herald -- World)

    Souter, Specter and a Soft Shoe  May 11, 2009
    "When I switched to the Democrats, all my Republican pals could do was quote Dorothy Parker on hearing that Calvin Coolidge was dead: 'How can they tell?'" Ha, ha, ha. David Souter and Arlen Specter have little in common except drawing conservative ire and sharing in a triumph of intellectual mediocrity. (Townhall.com)

    Obama plays comedian-in-chief  May 10, 2009
    Every president since Calvin Coolidge has taken part in the dinner. In the traditional role as top entertainer for the night was sparky comedian Wanda Sykes, who joked that African Americans would disown Obama, the first black president, if he did not do well. (Yahoo News -- Top Stories)

    Obama Jabs At DC, and Himself, At Dinner  May 10, 2009
    Every president since Calvin Coolidge has attended the dinner. Connect to this TIME Story. (Time.com)

    Obama jabs at himself, DC's establishment  May 10, 2009
    Every president since Calvin Coolidge has attended the dinner. . (USA Today)

    We Need a Hero  May 9, 2009
    Gone are the days when a great but uncharismatic president like Calvin Coolidge could get elected because he promised to do as little as possible. ("Perhaps," he observed, "one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business.") My ideal platform may be right. (Townhall.com)

    The Liberals Are Snickering  May 9, 2009
    On the front page of its "Week in Review" section, the newspaper ran a huge picture of him from years ago, in which he is wearing a silly plaid suit, the collar of his shirt vaguely reminiscent of Calvin Coolidge, his face expressionless but his eyes large and glistening, like the caricatures one used to see of girls with huge Bambi-like eyes. Another Times picture shows him in a coat and tie hastening past his ramshackle, unpainted, wooden farmhouse, situated at the end of an unmarked dirt road... (Human Events Online)

    Big Time Showcase Top 10 Offensive Players  May 9, 2009
    (63 195), also of Calvin Coolidge H.S. (DC), stood out as having the best day at WR. He started off the day by running a 4 ... Athletic Jr. WR (511 185), the final of the 3 Calvin Coolidge standouts, showed why many people consider him the best WR in DC, with his biggest competition coming from his own teammate, Joshua Ford. (RutgersInsider.com)

    JONAH GOLDBERG: It's time for conservatives to find a hero  May 9, 2009
    Gone are the days when a great but uncharismatic president like Calvin Coolidge could get elected because he promised to do as little as possible. My ideal platform may be right. (Fresno Bee -- Opinion)

    Pam LockebyA couple relaxes on the Boardwalk by the Daytona Beach Pier recently.Big changes in store for Daytona Beach Pier  May 3, 2009
    DAYTONA BEACH -- The same year a collection of wooden planks became the Daytona Beach Pier, biology teacher John Scopes was arrested for teaching Charles Darwin's theory of evolution, Calvin Coolidge became the first president to have his inauguration broadcast on radio, and Benito Mussolini rose to power in Italy. In the 84 years since the pier was rebuilt into its present form, thousands of lives and souls have become intertwined with the iconic landmark reaching into the waters of the... (Daytona Beach News Journal)

    Stolen & Irreplaceable Indian baskets, other artifacts pilfered from Coolidge museum  May 1, 2009
    Plans for the founding of the museum coincided with the first Calvin Coolidge Days celebration in September 1985. The location at 161 W. Harding Ave. had historic significance and was a natural choice for the placement of the museum - the building was erected in 1934 as Coolidge's first justice of the peace court and jail, presided over by Deputy Sheriff Asa Gardner. (Casa Grande Valley Newspapers, AZ)

    Tour Kentucky's Mammoth Cave  Apr 30, 2009
    In 1926, President Calvin Coolidge signed legislation making Mammoth Cave a national park ... In 1926, President Calvin Coolidge signed legislation making Mammoth Cave a national park. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Travel)

    The President, Not the Nation’s CEO  Apr 29, 2009
    One of the last presidents who understood the office, the now undeservedly dismissed Calvin Coolidge, once gave a speech to a group of boy scouts that is almost unimaginable coming from the mouth of Obama. After praising reverence for law and the town meetings he attended as a boy (not the kind where the President of the United States talks about national and international policy but the old fashioned kind concerning stopsigns and saloon licenses), President Coolidge explained the American way... (Human Events Online)

    Marvelous journeys  Apr 18, 2009
    Former U.S. President John Calvin Coolidge (1872-1933) weighed in on the topic. Said he: Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. (Orangeburg Times and Democrat, SC)

    Michelle Obama: Nation needs youthful idealism more than ever  Apr 15, 2009
    Michelle Obama helps a girl at D.C.'s Calvin Coolidge High School work on a project to support the troops. President Obama and his wife visited the school to promote his Day of Service program Jan. 19. (USA Today)

    Death of a cliche ” "Run Government like a business"  Apr 11, 2009
    You won t hear many GOP politicians today quoting Republican presidents who urged, Less government in business and more business in government (Warren Harding), or asserted that the business of America is business (Calvin Coolidge). The inconsistencies of the business world and its partisan apologists have been monumental. (Paragould Daily Press, AR)

    Art Returned To Heirs Of Holocaust Victims  Apr 11, 2009
    Both were hung in the Italian style Doge Suite, where newspaper publisher William Randolph Hearst put his most famed visitors, including Winston Churchill and President Calvin Coolidge. A third painting, of Venus and Cupid attributed to the school of Venetian artist Paris Bordonen, will remain at Hearst Castle under an agreement with the Oppenheimer heirs. (KSBW 8, CA)

    GALA a roaring success  Apr 9, 2009
    "Each year we just keep getting better and better." Elbert said that a quote from Calvin Coolidge was a summation of what GALA stands for. "No one person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what they gave." Elbert recalled the first year of GALA, when only 10 people were in charge of organizing the event. (Algona Upper Des Moines, IA)

    Future flushed down sewer  Apr 4, 2009
    jgn69 wrote on Apr 3, 2009 9:56 AM:" I said Hoover, Reagan and GW Bush were the three buffoons who followed "Trickle Down economic" and thus all three crashed the stock market. I should have added a few other presidents also followed the theory (Coolidge and Harding) those two are often sited as great as Lincoln and Washington (kidding!) In fact, most historians rate Harding at the bottom of any list of effective presidents.Andrew Mellon, who had helped found the Alcoa aluminum company and Gulf... (Logan Herald Journal, UT)

    White House economic adviser Goolsbee won't rule out...  Mar 26, 2009
    March 30, 2009 Vol. 14, No. 27. Wednesday, March 25, 2009. (The Drudge Report)

    Presidential memoirs lack self-criticism  Mar 25, 2009
    "It's unfair to jump on Bush for not writing a self-flagellating memoir," says presidential historian David Greenberg, whose books include "Nixon's Shadow" and a biography of Calvin Coolidge. "It's a genre, a political genre, and it has different standards, needs to be read differently from other kinds of memoirs.". (MSNBC -- Politics)

    Stomped by recession, can our Consumer Nation regroup?  Mar 23, 2009
    Even as Calvin Coolidge was cautioning that thrift and self-control are not sought because they create wealth, but because they create character, John Maynard Keynes was insisting that the engine which drives enterprise is not thrift, but profit. When bad things happen, the instinct is to batten the hatches and not spend. (Helena Independent Record, MT)

    Some Forgotten Presidents Shouldn't Be  Mar 22, 2009
    On August 2, 1927, President Calvin Coolidge had breakfast in the White House residence with his wife, Grace, and remarked to her I have been president four years today ... Calvin Coolidge could have been re-elected if he had wanted the job for another term. (Townhall.com)

    The Sooner ... Or Later State Of Mind  Mar 7, 2009
    And he was a part-Indian pitching for the Indians with the longest given name in big-league history: Calvin Coolidge Julius Caesar Tuskahoma McLish. As he explained it to me in an interview five years ago, he came from a big family and his mom named all the others easy, simple names. (Cleveland, TheInsiders.com)

    Gun-Control Bill Lurks in Revolving Door  Mar 5, 2009
    "It takes semiautomatic firearms and handguns the guns people use for personal self-defense," Gun Owners of Americas spokesman said, "and sets up a licensure system, that is, the government would have to give you permission to own a gun. The government also can deny that permission, and it would mean an anti-gun administration could use it to ban most guns from private ownership. The key and tragic flaw of this plan is the conversion of a right into a privilege. If liberal Harvard law... (Newsmax)

    Read 'Beltway Boys' transcript  Feb 24, 2009
    You want to go back to Calvin Coolidge. BARNES: No, I'm just tracing a trend here, that is pretty obvious. (Fox News)

    Today in History  Feb 23, 2009
    In 1927, President Calvin Coolidge signed a bill creating the Federal Radio Commission, forerunner of the Federal Communications Commission ... President Calvin Coolidge. (Yahoo News)

    Subsidize Bad Behavior?  Feb 21, 2009
    we have not had a conservative administration since calvin coolidge. quit blaming conservatives for the stupidity of congress, which was bad enough when it was controlled by the rino-democrat coalition, and even worse when controlled by democrats. (Townhall.com)

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