CrusaderFrank
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Clearly, by whatever metric you choose to use, Calvin Coolidge was the 20th Century's Greatest President. He was a strong and principled Governor, breaking an illegal Police strike and gained national attention by firing all the strikers. He was an incredibly disciplined President who choose NOT to micromanage the US economy. He was secure enough that he did NOT need to constantly demonstrate how smart and helpful he was on a 24/7/365 basis. He inherited a recession as bad as the ones that Obama and FDR inherited. Instead of making them worse and using them to redirect the USA on the destructive path of Progressivism, he stepped aside and let assets, liabilities and wages reprice from a wartime to a peacetime economy. In 18 months, unemployment dropped from 12% down to 4%. By the end of his President you could not find an unemployed person in the USA.
He was fortunate enough to be President during a period of great transformation technologies: Electrification of cities and industry, mass production and flight. He was disciplined enough to let the markets work out the best way to bring these benefits to Americans. These were the Roaring 20's. A nation that reduced it's debts, taxes and regulations and let Freedom work for the benefit of the people.
And, of course, he is not discussed, his economic record is a state secret. He is lied about (Shocking, I know) as somehow "involved" with the Teapot Dome Scandal.
If FDR is "Great" Coolidge is a God
He was fortunate enough to be President during a period of great transformation technologies: Electrification of cities and industry, mass production and flight. He was disciplined enough to let the markets work out the best way to bring these benefits to Americans. These were the Roaring 20's. A nation that reduced it's debts, taxes and regulations and let Freedom work for the benefit of the people.
And, of course, he is not discussed, his economic record is a state secret. He is lied about (Shocking, I know) as somehow "involved" with the Teapot Dome Scandal.
If FDR is "Great" Coolidge is a God