she then taught until her marriage to calvin coolidge, a young lawyer in town. her mother had wanted her to stay in burlington so she could find a nice, handsome doctor for her, but grace said you was going to northampton, the home of smith college where there weren't hardly any men. but she found the one guy in town. they lived in a two family house in north hampton and raised two sons there. she stayed at home while her husband commuted by train to

one time calvin coolidge went out and said, vermont this is a state i love. that's where he got his bride grace. she was born in burlington, so on. and grace turned to the newspaper men and said, did you get that? that was really good. and she was right. she also devoted herself to deaf children. she hosted helen keller at the white house. she and her husband have the thrill of reading charles linworth when he came back from europe. calvin sent a destroyer to pick him up. i thought that was wonul

and calvin coolidge said, no, that's beyond our means and we will not do that. when it comes to the vice presidency, she did not campaign again. she stayed home. and calvin did a little campaigning since the hardings were on their front porch pretty much, right? >> right. >> and then when it came to calvin running in his own right, their son had just died. and i'll be telling you about that a little bit later. so there wasn't a whole lot of campaigning. but thomas edison, harvey firestone, and henry ford all came to visit plymouth, vermont. i don't know how many of you have been to plymouth, vermont. it's a very small town. they talked and grace coolidge was right there talking with these folks and talking about politics. so she seems to have come into her own a little bit in this time period. and then when they did win and went back to the white house, she had a little bit more of a role. but in terms of campaigning, i would say this. william allen wright said when looking at the campaign, one flag, one country, one conscience, and never more than three words wi

finally most recently of a trilogy by rebating, alleged witches say very engrossing story about calvin coolidge background and history. a man of not many words but she tells the story in the way that brings out all lot about him that people otherwise would not have known. >> all lots of the letters are funny. you wrote one about a terrorist named e. coli. >> a bacterial outbreak in european some people died. they gave it the name e coli and then some numbers. so i'm trying to get back to president clinton to read define terrorism review are worried about the lawsuit you better worry about viruses and bacteria. not just the ones that come from africa or asia we're dealing with mutations per you were a scientist, it is scary. if we don't get ready in time it could be like the influenza epidemic after world war i. he said how will i get to these people? i say one of the letter in the name of e coli to was sitting in a petri dish and its life is very limited there will come and get it they already analyzed it. so he figures i have to do something to redeem myself so it is returned to sender to make

film we first sound have featuring a president is calvin coolidge talking about economic policy.t is not the most scintillating film in the world, but it is fascinating to see him, this very early sound technology. speaking to the camera about policy. talk isaring silent -- amusing in and of itself. >> -- it grants everybody a life pension with which to raise the standard of existence. it increases the value of everybody's property, raises the scale of everybody's wages. one of the greatest favors that can be bestowed on the american people is economy and government. said that in have 1912, the copyright law changed. and we were no longer receiving films through copyright. or we weren't keeping the films that were registered to copyright. but that doesn't mean that we don't have any films between 1912 and the 1940's when we really did start keeping a lot of films that were coming in to copyright. we have gone back and retrospectively collected over the years. so we have nearly 140 million feet of film. and a great amount of that film is chronicling world war i. we are in the proc

sound film we have featuring a president is calvin coolidge talking about economic policy.s not the most scintillating film in the world, but it is fascinating to see him this very early sound technology. phonofilm, they called it. just hearing silent cal talk is amusing and in its self -- in and of itself. with whichdge: -- to raise the standard of existence. it increases the value of everybody's property, raises the scale of everybody's wages. one of the greatest favors that can be bestowed upon the american people is the economy in government. i have said that in 1912 the copyright law changed. we were no longer receiving films through copyright, or we film's keeping the register to copyright, but that does not mean we do not have any films between 1912 and the 19 really did start keeping a lot of films that were coming in for copyright. we have gone back and retrospectively collected over the years, so we have nearly 140 million feet of nitrate film in the collection. and a great amount of that film is actually chronicling world war i. we are in the process of doing mor

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of all the way through a calvin coolidge but in the '30's that made the difference with the invention of keynesian economics or the entire opprobriums -- and tenement programs. we had a recession and we recovered very quickly but there was a recession in the 1920's but then the economy started growing very quickly john: without big government we destroy the planet? >> federal spending damages the environment and california has a terrible drought partly the responsibility of the government has been subsidizing water that causes over consumption farmers are forming what they shouldn't be that is at the roots of the problem. the subsidies cause distortion one of the biggest polluters is the federal government agencies. [applause] >> some say we have to balance the budget but you say that is not politically realistic and we don't have to? they say okay but we will raise taxes but simply to have it grow slower than the private sector over time. there is a long last where you say would is a list of countries? they have greece and france and italy. >> this will continue to grow just more slo

tide of american progressivism the 1912 election and we landed in the middle of the 1920s with calvin coolidge and andrew mellon. i submit to you that coolidge was the most successful conservative president in history and mellon was his key partner in that. let me explain why i say that. coolidge and mellon's record can boast several things. that reduce taxes, instituted significant tax reform, reduced the marginal income-tax rate from over 70 present to below 70% reduced federal regulation ignited a great economic boom and finally, this is most critical, they actually reduced the size of the federal government and that last point is the point that the first three points i things that could have been said about reagan's tenure, the last point was one of reagan's objectives, republicans cannot controlled congress, to reduce the size of the federal government but to do these things was a very successful president and popular president. one of the interesting concepts, not only believes an economy, and moral reasons for it. a famous quote from him was the policy of the economy not to say money to

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one time calvin coolidge went out and said, vermont this is a state i love. that's where he got his bride grace. she was born in burlington, so on. and grace turned to the newspaper men and said, did you get that? that was really good. and she was right. she also devoted herself to deaf children. she hosted helen keller at the white house. she and her husband have the thrill of reading charles linworth when he came back from europe. calvin sent a destroyer to pick him up. i thought that was wonderful. and also the coolidges had introduced the morrows and the lindbergs. we know what came out of that was a marriage. and they were very happy about that. in terms of the press, grace did not try to cultivate any kind of press relations. she did allow them to photograph her. she did say to the press, leave my boys alone. the children of the first family, and we have seen that continually, should be left alone. but she was happy to pose at 12:00 noon on the steps, take questions, and pose with people who wanted to visit her. and she said she was the national hugger.

of all the way through a calvin coolidge but in the '30's that made the difference with the inventionesian economics or the entire opprobriums -- and tenement programs. we had a recession and we recovered very quickly but there was a recession in the 1920's but then the economy started growing very quickly john: without big government we destroy the planet? >> federal spending damages the environment and california has a terrible drought partly the responsibility of the government has been subsidizing water that causes over consumption farmers are forming what they shouldn't be that is at the roots of the problem. the subsidies cause distortion one of the biggest polluters is the federal government agencies. [applause] >> some say we have to balance the budget but you say that is not politically realistic and we don't have to? they say okay but we will raise taxes but simply to have it grow slower than the private sector over time. there is a long last where you say would is a list of countries? they have greece and france and italy. >> this will continue to grow just more slowly? >>

. >> that's right, government spending was the under 4% all the way through calvin coolidge in the 20s was the 1930s that made the difference. invention of so-called entitlement programs. john: we grew faster than before? >> absolutely we did. john: we had the depression. >> we had recessions but the government stayed out of it and we recovered quickly, like a big recession in the early 20s. harding and coolidge didn't do anything about it and the economy recovered quickly and started growing. john: people say without big government, we destroy the planet. >> no, in fact, a lot of federal spending damages the environment. california had the terrible drought. it is partly the responsibility of the federal government subsidizing water for a century caused overconsumption, farmers are farming things they shouldn't be farming, overconsuming water. that is one of the roots of the problem here that subsidies cause extortion and political damage. some of the biggest offenders are political agencies. john: some say we have to balance the budget. dan, you say that's not politically realistic an

some presidential grades, like calvin coolidge, you can just walk right up. some, there are a few parameters. -- a few parameters. i am reluctant sometimes for my father is a force of nature and he will like me on. for jefferson, there is a gate there. time young enough at the to slip through the bars of the cemetery and get to the globalist for a better shot -- to the obelisk and get a better shot. brian: jackson is one of the presidents with a fence. did not deter you? -- did that the tour you? -- did that deter you? kurt: no, i jumped over it. sometimes you have to think about who the president is and what was their personality. at lyndon johnson's presidential burial site, the final one i visited at 17, it is the johnson family cemetery. they don't really let the public and there, but it is kind of faraway picture wise so we want to get a better photograph. we hopped over the wall and actually got yelled at by an employee there who we gave the of --ld-esqe nickname seinfeld-esque nickname of mower-guy. sometimes you need to hop the fence for the better pi

and even, you know, even presidents later such as calvin coolidge especially who wanted to retreat tohe sidelines couldn't do it. i mean, now that's what -- that's what really changed there. the first lady role, i think probably, probably in terms of trying to continue that. i think ellen probably had more impact than edith did. kristie miller: absolutely, i couldn't agree with you more. susan swain: well, that's a great segue because we now have to move in ellen's wilson's story. and before we do that, i want to tell you that how you can involved. the beauty of the series, and by the way tonight is a special two-hour program since we have two first ladies to talk about. but our phone lines will be open and you can reach us, 202-585-3880, if you live in the eastern or central time zones. mountain and pacific, 202-585-3881, you can be part of a facebook conversation, go c-span on facebook. and finally, you can tweet us using at first ladies or the hash tag first ladies and be part of the conversation that way. so we welcome your involvement as our program progresses. but we're going to