John Calvin Coolidge Research Paper
Born on July 4, 1872 in Plymouth Notch, Vermont, John Calvin Coolidge Jr. was the offspring of a successful farmer and small business man. Serving in the Vermont Senate and House of Representatives, his father, John Coolidge, later swore him in after the death of President Harding. At the age of twelve, he lost his mother. And, around several years later, his sister met the same fate. With little ambition other than to follow in his father’s footsteps, he managed to attend Amherst College in Massachusetts. In 1895, he graduated with good grades and a reputation for his wits and public speaking abilities. Once college had ended, Calvin Coolidge apprenticed at a law firm in Northampton. He passed the bar in 1897 and then opened a law office and
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As president, Coolidge demonstrated and showed his determination on preserving the old moral and economic power precepts amid the material prosperity which many Americans were taking enjoyment in. Loosely following Harding’s platform, his first message to Congress called for tax cuts, isolation in foreign policy, economy, and limited help to farmers. Coolidge quickly became popular. He stated that the nation had accomplished “a state of contentment seldom before seen,” he made it his goal to maintain the status quo. The following years he managed to twice vetoed farm relief bills, and kill a plan to produce cheap Federal electric power on the Tennessee River. Once, in 1926, Walter Lippmann even pointed out that the political genius of President Coolidge was his talent for effectively doing nothing. His wit and way with words became famous. This was evident once when his wife, Grace Goodhue Coolidge, recalled that a young woman sitting next to him at a dinner party bet she could get at least three words out of him. He quietly responded saying “You lose.” However, one of his most famous statements of all was, in the Black Hills of South Dakota, “I do not choose to run for President in 1928.” Once the Great depression hit, which some historians have blamed partly because of his laisse-fair ideology, he was in retirement. He eventually died on January 5, 1933 in Northampton,
As president, Coolidge demonstrated and showed his determination on preserving the old moral and economic power precepts amid the material prosperity which many Americans were taking enjoyment in. Loosely following Harding’s platform, his first message to Congress called for tax cuts, isolation in foreign policy, economy, and limited help to farmers. Coolidge quickly became popular. He stated that the nation had accomplished “a state of contentment seldom before seen,” he made it his goal to maintain the status quo. The following years he managed to twice vetoed farm relief bills, and kill a plan to produce cheap Federal electric power on the Tennessee River. Once, in 1926, Walter Lippmann even pointed out that the political genius of President Coolidge was his talent for effectively doing nothing. His wit and way with words became famous. This was evident once when his wife, Grace Goodhue Coolidge, recalled that a young woman sitting next to him at a dinner party bet she could get at least three words out of him. He quietly responded saying “You lose.” However, one of his most famous statements of all was, in the Black Hills of South Dakota, “I do not choose to run for President in 1928.” Once the Great depression hit, which some historians have blamed partly because of his laisse-fair ideology, he was in retirement. He eventually died on January 5, 1933 in Northampton,