“Keep Cool with Coolidge” was one of the presidential campaign slogans for the 1924 election. What was so cool about Coolidge? Here in Episode 23, we give you our reasons why Calvin Coolidge gets our vote for the most underrated president in American history. Here’s a few teasers – he was the first president to appoint a woman to the Federal Judiciary, he extended American citizenship to Native Americans, he proposed the first federal anti-lynching laws, he was the last president to pay down the national debt, and so much more. A man of very few words (a.k.a. Silent Cal,) who experienced heartbreaking personal tragedy while in office, Coolidge is the only president to be sworn into office by his own father and the only one to be sworn in at 3 o’clock in the morning.
Books:
- The Autobiography of Calvin Coolidge by Calvin Coolidge
- Why Coolidge Matters: Leadership Lessons from America’s Most Underrated President by Charles C. Johnson
- A Puritan in Babylon: The Story of Calvin Coolidge by William Allen White
- Coolidge: An American Enigma by Robert Sobel
- A History of the American People by Paul Johnson
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