calvin coolidge was really the last president that was consistently what the republican party claims to be. but we're not in that political environment anymore, and that's why i didn't discuss coolidge. i do discuss coolidge somewhat, but that's why he was not a major focal point of my book. >> thank you very much. one of the things i'm interested in is hearing about the tate reforms -- state reforms and how we can take those lessons from cutting government spending, putting in consumption taxes, school choice, those sorts of of things, looking at that from a federal level where the politics might be a little bit different. >> uh-huh. i think there are some differences between state and federal government. obviously, state governments have to at some point do something to balance their books. they can't print money, there's no state-level federal reserve. the sort of debt crisis faced by a lot of state governments has to do with pension obligations of government workers, not the benefits that you and me -- that, that, that -- may someday get. [laughter] so i think that makes it a litt

calvin coolidge is never on the best presidents west but he should be says amity shlaes the author.he wrote about college and he stopped growth. >> when he left office 1929 the federal government was smaller than when he came in 1923. john: but the know what also the political class, he is not liked. >> politicians of either party like to grow government and he shrinkage and i found it was fascinating how. he said no. all the time. whether the 50th and veto. john: he said as much more important to kill bad bills band pass good one. >> you wrote that to his father who was a law maker. he said give the administration a chance to catch up with legislation don't write too many laws. these phrases sound so foign. he is a bit different and he believed an austerity that the economy would grow and his evidence shows he was corrt. john: he is blamed for the deession. >> it is weird history if you don't want to hurt roosevelt you ha to hurt the people who come before. >> but hoover came in between and increased spending. >> that's right. i blame hoover more but coolidge was the antitsis of ro

calvin coolidge is never on the best presidents west but he should be says amity shlaes the author.e wrote about college and he stopped growth. >> when he left office 1929 the federal government was smaller than when he came in 1923. john: but the know what also the political class, he is not liked. >> politicians of either party like to grow government and he shrinkage and i found it was fascinating how. he said no. all the time. whether the 50th and veto. john: he said as much more important to kill bad bills band pass good one. >> you wrote that to his father who was a law maker. he said give the administration a chance to catch up with legislation don't write too many laws. these phrases sound so foreign. he is a bit different and he believed an austerity that the economy would grow and his evidence shows he was correct. john: he is blamed for the depression. >> it is weird history if you don't want to hurt roosevelt you have to hurt the people who come before. >> but hoover came in between and increased spending. >> that's right. i blamed hoover more but coolidge was the antith

calvin coolidge. he's never on the best president lists that i see.an who wrote the book. coolidge actually dopstopped growth, cut spending. >> when coolidge left office, john, in 1929 the federal government was smaller than when he came in in 1923. >> yet the chattering classes the smug know it alls he's not liked. >> politicians haof either part like to grow government and he shrank it. what i found in writing this book is it was fascinating how he said no, no they can't. he said that all of the time, john, whether it was with his -- >> 50 times he vetoed congress. much more important to kill bad bills than pass good ones. >> he wrote that to his father who was a lawmaker. give administration a chance to catch up with legislation. too write too many laws. all of these interesting phrases sound so foreign to him now. he's a bit different, right? he believes in austerity. the government would grow. the evidence of his period suggest he was corrupt. >> yet he is blamed for the depression. >> it is kind of a weird history thing. if you don't want to rur

it is the quote from calvin coolidge, it's in a book about him about 1922 and he said of immigrationme over -- whether your people came over on the mayflower or they came over last week in steerage, we're all in the same boat. that's an old american point of view. he explained afterwards the boat you're in is made magical by a feeling of americanism which we all have to communicate to each other, which we don't communicate so well these days. but i think there's just a general sense normalize and regularize this thing. don't make it punitive and nasty. >> she does bring up a point every two generations. >> oh, my goodness. >> and eventually -- >> it was chinese in the 19th century. >> and eventually we get through it and, guess what, we do communicate americanism very well. still after immigration. i think a deal gets done because of the impetus for the republican party to do something, to move. marco rubio has been preaching this since he got to the senate that we've got to do something, people, or else they're not going -- latinos are not going to listen to the republican party on

in 1944, calvin coolidge became the first of 14 presidents to attend the dinner. website goes on to say that in world war rohr -- in world war ii it was an entertainment extravaganza. it goes on to show more information. was open2, the dinner only to men. change when helen thomas, president john kennedy said he would not attend the dinner unless the ban on women was dropped. we have them on our website, c- cd.n.org/wh you can find all the old footage. barry in pennsylvania on the independent line. caller: thank you for taking my call. i would like to comment about the relationship with the media and the d.c. insiders. if i remember correctly, back in the day, a lot of people in certain political leaders for giving reagan a very, very hard time for hanging out with all these hollywood types like sinatra, etc. he came under a lot of fire and abused for that. it seems these days hollywood has no problem hanging out with the current president. i am wondering, is there a double standard going on around here? i understand that the president does need to get his message

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this has been going on since calvin coolidge, and i think it is a fabulous, and i look forward to it every year. i take it and watch it several times. .- i tape it i think the press takes it on the chin, some of the leaders of the press and the tv shows, and the president certainly did john on biden last night. every year, -- did a job on biden last night. community is able to laugh at itself and i think they complemented the president. and theed on boston fire. shows a very serious nature of the president. i just thought it was fabulous. byt: he ended his remarks talking about the gravity of the current situation. did that work for you, that contrast a very serious topics with all the levity of the night? caller: absolutely. we do that ourselves in conversations. we talk very seriously when we have to be serious, and i think he did not want to leave their thinking everybody was just looking at the funny side of life. there is a very serious side, and he pointed out the beauty of the boston globe and the way they covered this very terrible bombing, and the whole city of boston and th