and make it impossible to see the sanitation and security workers struck in every inch of the empty part at officer said by assuring the crowd they could return within minutes as soon as the crews finished reading. this turned out to be false. no one was allowed to enter the park until 5:00 p.m. that day today to refer to build most of the cops have been informed about the rage. they were dying rate here is a part of an exercise until later the orders to head downtown. as the sun rose, please corral protesters onto one section area of the sidebar. few were arrested for refusing to do for barricaded eastern sidewalk to barricades on the west side of broadway. city officials were quick with public relations calling the eviction to necessary for nonspecific health and safety concerns and spinning negative price of silver linings for answering initial reports of destruction over 5000 people slavery pokes mayor bloomberg

quickly treated all of the books were secured would be available for recovery the following day. the truth is the implied somewhere in between. in the morning the library twitter account transmit the following message. the n.y.p.d. has destroyed everything and occupy wall street and put it on dumpsters, including the uw -- ows library. stephen boyer had lived at the part for the most of the tune of the cabinet, worked in a fibrin hope to create the massive ows poetry anthology with an honesty famous contributors around the world. at night he said he could fairly save the massive anthology before the cops shoved him out of the park and he watched them books and the backs of the tracks. our library has over nine votes and a little less than 5000 were taken that night he said adding the rest of the books stored in a nearby space to the movement. i see the anthology by strapping those two men back and read from it during the raid.

when asked about the incident, though from the library added beyoncé computers which the city also claimed recoverable after the raid had been systematically destroyed. a week after the eviction representative of the people slavery and a lawyer to retain sued the city issued a press release stating only went thousand 275 books were recovered with only 839 of these critical condition. the city they said had trashed or destroyed more than 3000 of the books used. but at the fact of the eviction was slow to emerge, one thing was perfectly clear as the sun rose on a cold november morning. for the first time in nearly two, the car park was empty. but for a handful of sanitation workers and armored police. in a press conference that morning, mayor bloomberg chastised the occupiers for having overstayed their welcome and failing to exercise responsibility along with their rights.

now they will have to occupy this space is the power of their arguments he said. as he spoke, protesters prepare to do just that and more. thank you. [applause] >> i want to thank a lot the rights of the 99% to read this evening all of the rights of the 99% who wrote this terrific book. it really is an honor to have published it. and this is a book which is designed to help the movement that describes. and spring is coming that we will be out on the streets again and wall street better look out. thanks very much for coming.

[applause] >> now from the book to the archives, david pietrusza, author of trans fat in, unfettered choice 61924. this is just under an hour. [inaudible]

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[inaudible] it is he observed a created advantage for him to know he is not a great man. but calvin coolidge did possess a remarkably coherent philosophy of government and of life itself. in fact, historian paul john then is paul cyphers quote the most internally consistent and single-minded of under an american president. calvin coolidge may have been the last jeffersonian. a man who is president to lead strongly enough and governmental power and giving a federal power to resist the temptation to extend it, even when he himself

would be the man implementing that power. coolidge believes that the property of the nation belong to the citizens of that nation coming out to his government. he believes strict obedience of the lot and service to others and an idealism rather than materialism. plain ideas nowadays and maybe not so quaint. we see a believer of the all-powerful state abroad come to some of offenders of the supposedly simple reminder was carefully circumscribed in his own power, others around the world were not so about government power. even in his own day, many dismiss coolidge's notions of limited government antiquated he didn't care. and that what he said and he said what he thought and remains among the most eloquent advocates were properly restrained government taxation and concurrently for individual economic responsibility and

liberty. he advocated a rigorously circumscribed federal government that empowered the american people to be free to do whatever they wanted. it took the leadership of the washington add-ons and a hamilton, a franklin and a pretty good supporting cast behind them to make it work. so simple that we seem to have forgotten it all. but as the glance back on what mr. coolidge articulated on such matters, we realize not only could he clearly see what the founders had devised, he could discern the broader human condition and he could see far ahead into the future into a world for old verities, his verities would quickly be discarded and disdain. let's say? sample and not particularly well-known one at that. engineering at team 14, at the office of the presidency of the

state senate, he told his fellow legislators the normal must care for themselves. the normal must care for themselves. what is he saying? he's saying if you're reasonably human you should be looked to close them feed and shelter yourself. you should be about to make decisions about your own property, but your future, your children, about your own money economy choices and options. adults can take care of themselves. but not the sub text in that sentence. what about those who are not quote, unquote normal? they need help. they cannot adequately fend for themselves in a very concept of surveys once again. a system, preferably privately or if that is not possible, only then through the auspices of the proper level of government. all of that in six words.

and he meant what he said. as massachusetts attacked governor he remarked regarding the state mental institutions. our party will have no part in the scheme of economy which has to do mystery of the worst of the commonwealth. the sick, insane and the unfortunate. those who are too weak even to protest because i know these conditions, i know a republican administration would face an increase in state rather than not see them remedied. but calvin coolidge did not raise taxes than he did not expand and/or neglect the worth of this state reaches the opposite occurred. he lowered taxes again and again while providing needed services. he did this by practicing what he called economy. a stringent attack on government waste any refusal to fund the program so matter how politically popular that he found to be mayor bates on the

public treasury for assaults on the federal constitution. yet calvin coolidge was no politician. the method of raising revenue ought not to impede the transaction of business. at.to encourage it. i am opposed to extremely high rates because they produce little or no revenue, because they are bad for the country and finally, because they are wrong. again, he's backwards attraction. american participation in the first world war has skyrocketed the highest marginal in contact straight and 7% to 77%. coolidge's predecessor warren harding for bargains secretary of the treasury and this is also coolidge's secretary of the treasury/statute 56% and coolidge finished the job taking that marginal rate down to 20%.

the result actually needed those of modest incomes. in 19 in 1920 galassi woodrow wilson's administration, 15.4% of all personal income taxes are paid by those earning $5000 a year or less. by the 10 coolidge left office in 1929, that figure has shrunk to a miniscule zero. 0.4%. those earning 100 grand a year or more at pages 29.9% in 1920. by 1929 and coolidge left office, the figure climbed to 65.2%. that is, when coolidge to sybase, 90% of the american people pay no income tax at all. quote, it is only a tiny exaggeration to note that historian tom silver to say that coolidge mellon completely

remove the burden of federal and can taxation from the backs of poor and working people. calvin coolidge cut federal income taxes. he produced a budget surplus each of the 60s of his presidency. he could do all this because he not only understood economics and government. he understood human nature. in february 1924, he informed the national republican club. if we had attacks whereby on the first working day the government took 5% of their wages. on the second day, 10%. on the 3020% on the fourth day 30% on the 50/50% and on the sixth day, people were 60s of the offense 60%. how many of you would continue to work on the last two days of the week? it is the same with capital. surplus income will go into tax-exempt security. it will refuse to take the risk

incidental and working in business. this will raise the rate which established business will have to pay for new capital and result in a marked increase in the cost of living. if new capital will not flow into peen enterprise, the president concerned can forward not only, increasing again the price with which the people have to pay. he said more in that speech, so much more than a half century later economist jude kaczynski would label that address the most lucid articulation of the supply-side wedge model in modern times. each element gem once noted calvin coolidge was simply, innocently, artlessly, he forgot a literary advocation set down his ideas exactly as they came into his head. the result was a tall but strangely appealing piece of writing, and composition of almost lincolnesque is dirty and

beauty, the trooper monitor was in every line of it. and yet, this master of articulation and plain speaking has fallen victim to one of the most egregious misunderstandings of the 20 century. it arrived as a slavish worshiper of commercial interests. the business of the american people is business. coolidge said in january 1925. for decades these words have been hung around his neck by critics to label him as a hopeless philistine, and worshiper of commercial and business interests. today's worries have been repeated every sense, but coolidge did say to achieve decisive business, but he's only wearing enough to his name point. a message of considerable variance for what he has been charged with seeing and meeting

the ignorant floppy or just plain lazy writers ever since. here is what god was also said that they. so long as wealth is made to mean and not the end, we need not greatly fear it and there never was a time of both lists are generally regarded as a means for so little regard the desert and as today. it is only those who do not understand the people, who believed that our national life is entirely absorbed by the true motives. we make no concealment on the fact that we want wealth, but that there are many other things we want very much more. we want peace and honor and charity, which is so strong element of all civilization. the chief idea of the american people as idealism. i cannot repeat too often that america is a nation of a deal as pure idealism. again, no mere word to calvin

coolidge. indeed regarding the man who chose his words so carefully it is easy to believe there were no mere words. his entire adult life was spent in public service. councilman, city solicitor, mayor, state representative come lieutenant governor, governor, vice president, president, more officers than any other president ever held. but, it is not easy for him to be a public man, to speak to many persons, shake hands, to do ordinary politicians do as a matter of course, a horrible shame that his professed calvin coolidge possessed him from his earliest days and never let go. he told friends about the little fellow go into a panic of their strange was the house. i thought they just couldn't meet people. most of the visitors with that but mother father in the

kitchen. and it was the hardest thing in the world to have to go through the kitchen door and give them a greeting. i was almost 10 before i realized they couldn't go on that way. and by fighting hard to use to manage to get through that door. i'm alright with old friends, but every time i meet a stranger, i've got to go through the old kitchen door back home and it's not easy. yet, we achieved more public offices and one more affection than any other president and in doing so accomplish what he wanted in the way he wanted to. he served without being servile. the normal cervical mentioned and begins to seem and righteous back and extremely comfortable and even crazed with the citizen. forgotten the country remembers the fact that he was let alone.

there are worse appetites for a statement that the day ever comes when jeffersons warning treated at last we reduce government to return and may very well have been it is now resting inconspicuously and will come to be revered as those in the end will really start to service. as one might expect on the fourth of july. get calvin coolidge was born on the fourth of july pier july 4, 1872 to be exact in a miniscule central vermont of plymouth notch, a collection of perhaps a dozen situated halfway between pueblo and bridgewater not particularly near anything. he was not born rich nor poor, but by the standards of the team

72, his father, colonel john coolidge as a general storekeeper, insurance agent, farmer and politician. his father, the great, the line he laid out were true and straight and the curves regular. the work he did endured. and from his father's business he learned his lesson, which never left. as they went about with my father, i knew that when taxes are laid, someone had to work to earn money to pay them. of his mother, victoria josephine coolidge wrote, whenever of his brain-dead it attracted her. it seemed as though the heads of the coolidge enemy on them it was for her to mountainsides

were strapped. she died under 50 nypirg date in march 1985. pride marches later abigail died. she was 14. their death boot cava coolidge profoundly forging agreed-upon and no doubt reinforcing coolidge is already powerful almost crippling sense of shyness. he studied in a one-room schoolhouse and later at amherst for his vermont ways proved puzzlement and amusement to his more sophisticated and careless classmates. his habit that with the habits of his future wife, none of them pointing the way towards a commitment of any sort of public career that he grew upon his classmate and invariably grew upon just about everybody and

somewhat iconic speech or he graduated laude and decided to practice law on attending law school and clerking offices in massachusetts, just south of amherst on passing the bar he set up a practice that is owned into politics and took a wife. grace cushier was nothing like calvin. also hailing from vermont, burlington to be exact and their fate also drift into the hands and outgoing and curvaceous educated at the university of vermont she tied at the local art school for the death. one day, she happened to be walking past the lodging and she looked up, saw him shaving while wearing a derby hat. she laughed. he hurt her, saw her result. they married in burlington on october 4, 1905.

the couple eventually took a $27 a month watching at 21 rattan tinpot of a pleasant, but modest weight frame duplex. i attended the furnishings of it myself he wrote and what it was ready, mrs. coolidge in iowa over to it in about two weeks our first break came on the evening of the tenders seven. the fragrance of the class which covers the window fills the room at the penn addictions with another leg. we called and chimed in and honor my father. it was all very wonderful to watch. they like the house where children came to us in the neighbors were so kind. we could've had a more pretentious home, we still clung to it. so long as i live there, i could be independent and serve the public without ever thinking that i could not maintain my position if i lost my office.

all the while, coolidge kept rising in power. he won a term of the massachusetts house traveling to boston to carry with him a letter of introduction. in fact, like a singed cat, he's better than he looks. his political philosophy took shape after the lifelong predilection to acting without regard to the pro-consequences. one massachusetts labor re: coolidge, and all my years of work in the legislature, they've never met a man and he sent her justice encourage i had more trust. in 1918 he narrowly won the governorship and found themselves confronted with two crises. the first involved a constitutional mandate to consolidate 118 government agencies and 1820 within three years. it was a political minefield.

coolidge not only avoided a trip, he did it within one year and won accolades in france. the second and greater crisis involves the boston police force. one in september 1990 boston took the least commissioner had ridiculed her dish, discipline union leader 1500 cops walk up the job between the city and protect did, violent as flawlessness objected. andrew jay peters illegally removed curtis moffat. coolidge reinstated curtis and caught a the state garden approach to stride. when the american federation of labor leader come to samuel don hearst demanded that coolidge reinstate striking police force and the jobs they had abandoned, coolidge responded, there is no right to strike against the public safety by anybody,

anywhere, anytime. coolidge's advisers thought his actions were alienated labor supporting cost him the election. he thought so too and he didn't care. it does not matter he said whether i am a lot good or not. but instead, if that coolidge's response caught the imagination of the american people, let that the nation stamping them as a no-nonsense champion of postwar law. he swapped his democratic opponent for november winning 62% of the vote and that the three field coolidge for president. he resisted that. he really did god intend team, but his name was placed in nomination as in 1920 republican national come tension and you might have gathered more of the said he had the support of its own united states senator, senator henry cabot lodge, nominate a man who lives in a two family house?

matter. ohio's dark horse candidate, ohio's emilio harding won the nomination on the 10th ballot and when time came to dominate, nominate vice presidential candidate, the delicate rebuild. they refuse to nominate the convention's choice, a guy named her family and worth from wisconsin. instead they stampeded emmy nominated calvin coolidge. harding will never serve his turn out they sat in the press box. he will guide and coolidge will be president. coolidge luck. that november, harding and coolidge swamped the democratic and. they got 60% of the vote. 60% of vote against james middleton cox and his vice

presidential candidate can't die you heard of named franklin delano roosevelt. that november, when they took off his skull and coolidge took office he chased under the idol is the lack of responsibility in the vice presidency, his only actual duty by the constitution was to preside over the united states senate and this really doesn't take much effort. so he wrote, i soon found the senate had that one fictional rule subject to exceptions of course, which was to the effect that the senate would do anything you wanted to do whenever it wanted to do it. when i had learned not, i did not waste much time with the other rules because they were so seldom applied. so any votes at prove themselves accomplish, washington saw only is this fat little redheaded man who wore an harding was probably dumped from the ticket in 1924.

but the coolidge luck eventually did strike and when it struck, it struck in his face. when worn harding died in august 1923, calvin coolidge was vacationing in plymouth dodge them by flickering kerosene myna blacklock in the morning, he was sworn in as a resident of the united states of america by his 70-year-old republican father but the modest ceremony was complete, the new president of down the darkened room to visit his mother's grave. he came back and said, i think i can swing it. he didn't swing at. many icann underestimated him. they thought he would be nominated because no accidental president ever has one nomination in his own way. but as president coolidge

cleaned up the whole residue of the scandals that the harding administration and the interior department, and the veterans affairs bureau, and the justice department, the little teapot dome as, he restored faith and government, public honesty, easily one renomination and none of them are, that november he select did in a three-way race. he carries every state but one outside the democratic south. he carries every county in new england and he has the last republican president to ever carry new york city. ..

average workweek decreased 4%. consumer prices rose just 0.4% no inflation. national wealth rose 17.5%. total education spending rose fourfold, and in the decade it sells automobile ownership rose threefold, illiteracy fell by half. historian paul johnson summed it up to get under harding and under coolidge the usa enjoyed a general prosperity that was hysterically unique in its

experience or that of any other society. coolidge was the last president to write his own speeches and he delivered more of them in any of his predecessors. as president, he held 520 news conferences, eight per month. his formal inauguration address is for some reason expected to set a record for brevity. but his 4,005 words as warren harding's 318 and the 328 of woodrow wilson to the inauguration is not entirely ironic that a collection of press conference transports is entitled the talkative president. over the course of a three decade career we provided the opinion on any number of topics. he never wasted words, never missed words and here is a sample of what he had to say.

regarding his most basic philosophy of government, he contended i favor the policy of economy not because i wish to save money, but because i wish to save people. the men and women of the country that we all are the ones that bear the cost of the government. every dollar that we carelessly waste means that their life will be so much more than eager. every dollar that we couldn't leave it means there's would be so much more the abundant. the economy is idealism in its most practical form. putting it more bluntly, i am for the economy. after that i'm a firm or economy. regarding texas he said collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery and high taxes make high prices.

regarding service no person was ever honored for what he received. honor has been the reward for what he gave. on the congressional part, the people that start to elect the mayor to get what he can for his district will find they have elected a man that will get what he can for himself and on more nullity a nation that is morally dead will soon be financially dead and further if we are weak to take charge we should not be strong enough to take charge of our own liberty on politics. the political mind is the public life that had been spoiled. the been spoiled with praise and abuse and there is only one form of strategy of which i have any confidence and that is try to do the right thing and sometimes

you will succeed. on self-government is very difficult to reconcile the american ideal with sovereign people capable of owning and managing their own government with an inability to manage their own business. on price control it is not possible to repeal all of the supply and demand, the cause and effect of action or reaction. the value is a matter of opinion and congress has small jurisdiction over. on the principles of the founding fathers, these principles have now the same force as the revolutionary day when they were recognized and proclaimed. i am not unaware that they are. whatever is is old. what is new is our own misunderstanding of it. on our national needs we do not

need more material development. we need more spiritual development. we do not need more intellectual power. we need more moral power. we do not need more knowledge, we knew more character. we do not need more government, we need more culture. we do not need more laws, and we need more religion. on the wages those who do only what they are paid for will never be paid very much. on criticism destructive criticism is easy because despite the campaign some of us are not yet perfect and if we judge a result only by our aspirations and everyone else only by their conduct we shall soon reach a conclusion.

when we have exhausted the possibility of criticism on ourselves there will be time enough to apply it to others. on the art of legislating it is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones. on the top economic times when depression and business comes we begin to be very conservative in our financial affairs. we save our money and take no chances in its investment. yet in our political actions, we go in the opposite direction. we begin to support radical measures and pass our votes for those the most reckless proposals. this is a curious and logical reaction. when times are good we might take a chance on the radical government. but when we are financially weakened, we need the soundest and the wisest measures.

on soaking the rich, we cannot finance the country, we can not improve social conditions through any system of injustice even if we attempt to inflict it upon the rich. those who suffer the harm will be the poor. this country believes in prosperity. it is absurd to propose it is envious of those who are already prosperous. the correct course to follow the taxation and other economic legislation is not to destroy those who have already secured success or to create the conditions under which everyone will have a chance to be successful. the verdict of the country has been given on this question, that verdict stands. on fair trade or free trade or protectionism or whatever one might choose to call it faeroe tayler go to the to we wish to protect our agriculture and

industry from the results of dumping them on the markets at a price with which they cannot compete. but the policy has a deeper significance than that. we are unwilling to profit by the distress of foreign people. we do not want their blood money. our efforts are not only to protect our own people from cheap goods with president mckinley said but we propose to set up a standard that would discourage other nations by producing cheap goods. our policy requires fair wages for both domestic and foreign production. we have no market for blood and tears. my observation of protectionism is it has been successful in practice however and sounded me appear to be in theory that must mean that vv has taken into

account all the facts. having once toiled in the regulatory reform i always found this quote to be of particular interest. the attempt to regulate, control and prescribe all manner of conduct and social relations is very old. it was always the practice of primitive people. and somewhat less bluntly we have had miniet kump said the regulation of investor activity while all some of it has proceeded on the theory that if those that enjoy the material properties for the long purposes that prosperity should be limited or abolished. that is as sound as it would be to abolish the riding to prevent forgery. and you've probably heard this bit of advice before, maybe not knowing where it came from. nothing in this world can take the place of persistence.

talent will not. nothing is more common than people with power, genius will not. unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. education will not. the world is full of educated heroes. persistence and determination alone are magnificent. the slogan press on house solved and always will solve the problem. the coolidge years for a time of accomplishment, prosperity, indeed of domestic tranquillity. yet coolidge could not enjoy his presidency. the luck ran out on june 1924 when his younger son, 16-year-old calvin jr. playing tennis on the white house court developed a blister on his right foot. infection and pathogenic blood

poisoning resulted. from the very beginning, the infection was serious and from the beginning he seemed to know. in the age without antibiotics, calvin jr. died that july 7th. in his suffering, he asked me to make him well. i could not. when he went, the power and glory of the presidency went with him. the ways of providence are often beyond our understanding. it seemed to me the world had cable what he could do. i do not know why such a price exacted for occupy the white house. the usually fled to plymouth notch to massachusetts, to the wisconsin.

in 1927 the summer in the black hills of the rapid city south dakota and on august 2nd 1947 exactly four years to the day after calvin coolidge became president he stood in a classroom in rapid city south dakota and handed out tiny slips of paper. each one red i do not choose to run for president in 1928. the political will thought he was aiming for a draft. he wasn't. in march 1929 calvin coolidge retired and reluctantly handed over the country to the former secretary of commerce herbert hoover but he wasn't crazy about herbert hoover. he said that man has given me nothing but advice and all of it bad. [laughter] in retirement he gaveled hidden $3,000 a week offering a popular syndicated newspaper column and

compost as an eloquent and even public on the biography, the autobiography of calvin coolidge. his role was not different. he had moved back only to discover the next president cannot live in a two-family house upon an ordinary small-town street. all those crowded with curiosity seekers will apply in the constant procession. admirers trampled and trespassed the porch and peered through his windows. he paid $40,000 in the beaches, 16 rooms on the 9 acres overlooking the connecticut river. a house far grander than pennsylvania avenue. it was there that he died on thursday, january 5 disturbed by

the great depression still saddened by the passing and possessing fewer and fewer reserves. he returned home from the offices. as he shaved a heart attack fell beyond him. the varied, include milledge plymouth next to his mother and father and sister and son in the most humble grave. no signs corrected visitors, no dates in the offices he held, no words. that is the way calvin coolidge would have wanted it. thank you very much. [applause]

[inaudible] >> can you wait for the microphone your words will be reaching venetian >> when i read about his refusal to recognize the united nations after world war i and never acted it during his administration it made me feel that he was a globalized and his point of view it's an extend beyond our borders and also he did subsidize farmers and he had a high tariff during his administration and i just wondered if that was some kind of weakness and the fact he had herbert hoover in the department of commerce and within just four years after he resigned as

president this terrible depression ascended upon us. so i don't want to point to him as someone who is limited because he did so well but i do feel there was something in his point of view that was a weakness, and was a world view that disgust me when i read about it. can you comment on that? >> you covered a lot of ground and that is because you've raised some things i did not cover when i spoke. he didn't favor the league of nations because i think american public opinion which was sort of mixed on the topic originally had really moved on from that point. and even when you see franklin roosevelt coming in in 1933 with a solid democratic congress and the house and senate, you see america never moves in the

league of nations. it wasn't just harassing and coolidge was also roosevelt who never went into that even though he eventually came up with the sort of a league of nations 2.0 in 1945. coolidge did favor u.s. participation in the world. he avoided the threat of war. it was a possibility there was very bad feelings with that country at that point. he avoided that and restored relations and withdrew u.s. troops from nicaragua and was the first to personally attend the conference in havana. beyond that there was the naval treaty, very important in the plan, this became the vice chairman for the reparations and there was the pact that which was to halt all war as an instrument of international foreign policy.

so you see a lot of things going on there. he actually vetoed the act and i think he did that twice. the was controversy all. at the time he wasn't quite consistent on that point. so i think those were the main points and he would agree with your assessment. >> any other questions? >> in the back. >> do you think he was pressing and enough to know what was coming? do you think that by failing to run in november of 28 and leaving office in march of 29 and in october of 29 the wheels come off the wagon did he know what was coming? >> some people say he did know and that there's quotes that are kind of unverified. there was the call of race

coolidge where she says there is a depression coming and it's like time to scram. the business cycle had been very cyclical. so in the 1890's you've got a grover cleveland major depression and you've got a panic in 1907 for tariff under teddy roosevelt and the woodrow wilson depression of 1920, 1921. so these things came about every ten years and the question was how you dealt with them. i can cut not only -- there's been a lot of questions how bummed out he was. he was seriously depressed over the death of his son which is of course quite rational. but this took the steam and the glory of the presidency for him and more so almost more so 1926

his father died soon he has these personal tragedies club in his presidency and isn't feeling well. in 1932 they wanted to speak for herbert hoover and he's really begging off and from his personal feelings he doesn't want to do it. he says his throat hurts and everything and as a matter of fact he is dead. he's devotee for for president roosevelt takes office. he had that heart problem and i think that he probably simply felt he had accomplished -- he had all the way. what more was there to do. he said american president's return to the people and it's good for me to return to them so he said he wasn't a great man or essentials for him that all public office and if you have

any hobbies he said winning the election office but it didn't mean that much to him where is was an absolute compulsion and people didn't need for him to stay on he wouldn't stay on. estimate if i can do the math he was 51 when he died? >> i think he was 62. >> i'm sorry, can't do the math. >> it's a very disconcerting age right about now. [laughter] >> first of all this is a terrific book. i keep it by my nightstand. every page i find something from it so congratulations on that. now, i realized you are a historian, not a profit. i heard that on c-span the last time you were here. there are certain aspects of coolidge's political philosophy

that seem to be rising nationally for probably the first time since left the presidency. i hear a lot of coolidge in one year in the tea party movement. do you think that it's possible but the political philosophy is not just something antiquated but something we might see again implemented? >> i'm a historian, not a profit. but things go in cycles and ronald reagan was like the second, even though he had been a big fan of fdr, by the time was president he'd become more conservative and had become a big coolidge dam and replaced a portrait of harry truman that was hung in the white house with one of calvin coolidge that surprised a lot of people and this year we have heard gwen bet

resurrecting the persona and tv show so if the timing might be right. people are looking at this and as i quoted him quote in the founding fathers we see a lot of similarities and that philosophy and we are seeing more interest in the founding fathers were this might carry over and this is so pure and implementing it so effective. one of the ways i was going to start this speech and i thought no was politicians stand up in front of you when they want to be elected and say i'm going to cut spending and i'm going to balance the budget and i'm going to reduce the debt and cut out all of the waste in government, and they never do it.

they never do it and we fought for of all the time. calvin coolidge did and then we say he didn't accomplish anything. he never accomplished a damn thing and he did everything that every politician has were promised to do. so that is not too bad of an act to follow. he probably said he would try his best because promising might be overstating. but he was pulling working on a refuse a promise to raise taxes even though i damn well didn't raise taxes but it can be rash because you don't know what circumstances will dictate you can know what your principles guide you on. >> what do you think that his attitude is to the way that we are handled in our financial situation today in this country?

>> i hadn't consulted him on that, but i think that he would be quite a guest at this level of deficit particularly in peace time and i guess you could say there have been a leak iraq and afghanistan not in the same circumstances of the war on the level of deficit spending gives pause to everyone and you see right now voices within the administration are suddenly worried about it but the responses and to say maybe we spent too much in the last year but maybe we need another tax and one hell of a big value added tax which canada has been national sales tax. i cannot believe coolidge would

come in to any of that. any further questions? >> a friend of mine says that her favorite coolidge anecdote is the one of what he embraced visiting the chicken farm. i know you've looked into this. it's a great story so what have you learned about it? >> it's probably not true. why don't you tell it? [laughter] >> you want me to tell the story? this chicken farm while he's president they go on separate tours, and greece is hearing all about this fantastic rooster who makes love to the other chickens like 20, 40 times a day and she says be sure to tell that to mr. coolidge when he comes around so coolidge comes around

and they say what grace said and he said same hen? >> no, different. tell that to mrs. coolidge. [laughter] >> on that note, regarding the coolidge speech in favor of hoover at madison square garden, a lady came up to him afterwards and said you know mr. coolidge i enjoyed your talks alleged that i stood in the entire time. and he said so did on a. i've enjoyed this, too. so thank you for coming. [applause] that coincides with think location that happened that week in history. for more history programming checkout american history television on c-span freak or

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