command of hume i willty placed upon it has ever been expressed, in my judgment, than by president cool yidge. he, like lincoln, lost a child while he was president. a son of 16. the day i became president, coolage wrote, he had just started to work in a tobacco field when one of his fellow laborers said to him, you know, if my father was president, i would not be working in a tobacco field. to which young calvin apparently replied. if my father were your father, you would. his affection for the boy was obvious. and his admiration. while in the white house, president coolage's son contracted blood poisoning from an incident on the south lawn. coolage wrote words that resonate with any parent in the room. he wrote, wh might have happened to him under other circumstances we do not know. but if i had not been president . and then he continued. in his suffering he was asking me to make him well, and i could not. and when he went, the power and the glory of the presidency went with him. a sensibility like this, and not power, is the source of presidential dignity. and it must be restored. it depen