Providence, the rule of law and values of our forefathers all guided Coolidge throughout his life. Coolidge was born on July 4, , the only president to share a birthday with the country. Growing up in the Vermont hamlet of Plymouth Notch, the boy watched as his father, John Coolidge, and grandfather— Calvin Galusha Coolidge, made their living in rocky Vermont through a variety of trades.
Additionally, the family ran the town post office. While governor, Coolidge made a tough decision: he backed up his police commissioner in the firing of Boston policemen who had broken their contract by walking off the job to strike. Soon after, the Republican Party named the Bay State governor to the second spot on the Republican presidential ticket. The Republican platform called for a reduction in high taxes, a legacy of World War I, as well as government cutbacks.
Some contemporaries and historians have blamed his laissez-faire ideology for the Great Depression. Coolidge was also suspicious of foreign alliances, discouraging American membership in the League of Nations. Like Harding, Coolidge refused to recognize the Soviet Union. Coolidge spoke out in favor of civil rights. He refused to appoint any known members of the Ku Klux Klan to office, appointed African Americans to government positions and advocated for anti-lynching laws.
In , Coolidge signed the Indian Citizenship Act, granting full citizenship to all Native Americans while permitting them to retain tribal land rights. During his vacation, Coolidge issued a short statement indicating that he would not seek a second full term as president.
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Coolidge was both the most negative and remote of Presidents, and the most accessible. Even that is too much. It winds them up for twenty minutes more. But no President was kinder in permitting himself to be photographed in Indian war bonnets or cowboy dress, and in greeting a variety of delegations to the White House. Both his dry Yankee wit and his frugality with words became legendary. His wife, Grace Goodhue Coolidge, recounted that a young woman sitting next to Coolidge at a dinner party confided to him she had bet she could get at least three words of conversation from him.
By the time the disaster of the Great Depression hit the country, Coolidge was in retirement. I feel I no longer fit in with these times. The Presidential biographies on WhiteHouse.
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