we have the chair of calvin clute coolidge foundation.uthor of four new york times bestsellers including coolidge, a full-length biography of the president and most recently contributed to the anthology, when life strikes the president. diane writes the column for the wall street journal and the deputy editorial page editor of fox contributor. richard historian and editor of the national review says what with the founders do? our question, their answers. welcome. were glad to have you with us. on a celebratory note for the fourth of july. this is a panel of distinction. >> i cannot believe you would jeopardize your good standing to be with us today. i think i'm glad that you don't have better agents. >> it's an interesting time in america. people probably more engaged in the goings-on in the country than to have been in a couple of generations, i think that's true. but you as a historian could tell me where do you think people are seen the country for the state of it? >> the fourth of july? this one. >> look, i think we've had a bubble fr

coolidge was the most short spoken of theresidents. where a lady asked him and said i bet i could get you to say more than two words tonight and he said, you lose. so i think he is king twitter man. >> born for twitter. >> might be the only people at this table, i'm a pro social media person. i recognize is false and i've been on the receiving end of a lot of attacks. i actually find it a great way to share information quickly and to find out what people are thinking. do you think the fathers would have liked that people were talking and sharing all this information? >> these men were concerned to get their ideas out there. franklin was not the only publisher. sam adams was a publisher, adams which founded the post which is still publishing. they were journalism. newspapers were the medium they had and they exploited that. if they came back now they be watching this and sitting down and figuring out how to use this. >> i'm more critical of social media, i think one of the things that it does a lot of group reinforcement. it drives peop

invited coolidge to that. so i described that as as being a very pivotal moment of furthering the attachment as an executive institution. origins are if was an afterthought at the federal convention. alexander hamilton proposed having a vice president. he was basing it on lieutenant governors because there were lieutenant governors in the colonies and first states. so this idea you had a backup the gunfire and the roger proposal for a vice president was to call them governor. and someone suggested that as a title for the vice president. so then in the federal convention moving forward, again it was proposed very late in the game, and it was proposed really not to be a functioning position but just as a backup to the president if something were to happen to the president and heaven there the framersers were ambiguous how to work with secession. when you get the first -- the vice presidential -- vice president succeeding to the president, in the case of john tyler there was a lot of debate and concern amongst th

vice presidency, and i trace the modern vice presidency toward harding decision to invite calvin coolidge to be a member of the cabinet and to sit with the cabinet. no president had done that before. not that there were not vice presidency meetings occasionally like it would be with other cabinet members but to be a a formal member of the cabinet, he invited coolidge to that. so i described that is being a very pivotal moment in terms of the vice presidency as an institution in furthering its attachment as an executive institution. the origins are first of all it was an afterthought at the federal convention. alexander hamilton proposed having a vice president turkey was basing it on lieutenant governors, because lieutenant governors in the colonies and for states and whatnot. so this idea that you had a backup to the governor in that case, and, in fact, the original proposal for a vice president was to call them governor. and someone had suggested that aas a title for the vice president. so then in the federal convention moving forward, again it was proposed very late in the game, and it

city of about 250,000, and then the remarkable memorial being constructed, with president calvin coolidge, and about 160,000 people gathered, said to be the largest crowd that the president -- or president of the united states had spoken to up until that time. such was the -- i think the outpouring of honor for those who had served in world war i right across the nation, and also a yearning for peace and a different sort of future than the most recent past. and then this memorial with many complexities, it is really quite a striking architectural feature. it serves as a gathering place for many, many years. in the late '80s, early '90s some deferred maintenance issues needed to be addressed and, again, the people of the region responded to that, having been the conceivers of this, the funders, the stewards of it throughout the year, and they raised about another $110 million to restore and refurbish the memorial. at that time then creating an extraordinary museum in its structure. the liberty memorial association, as it was named in 1921 when it was formed, began collecting in the 1920s,

coolidge i have a bad to that my girlfriend can get you to say more than two words. he looked at her and said, you lose. knowing it would be a wild before we got the democrats back in the white house again mr. roosevelt decided to work on wall street and he needed a good private secretary, so he asked me to work for him and i said i don't know mr. roosevelt, i find law work about the most boring thing in the world. there aren't any lawyers in the room, are there? i didn't think so. you all a very nice. at any rate, he said don't worry missy-- by then he was calling me miss it because children started calling me that before long everyone did. don't worry missy, i find law work pretty boring myself. there will be lots of other things to do and he was right because he was involved in all sorts of causes and i went out to manhattan, stayed with a cousin and enjoying working for him very much and in august, 1920-- august 1921 he went to campobello island that he was stricken with polio. perhaps better known as infantile paralysis, which is a terrible disease for a man who

calvin coolidge reminded us that the whole system of american government rests on the ballot box. president reagan declared that the right to vote was the crown jewel of american liberties. by establishing this commission, president trump is taking action to ensure the ballot box remains inviolate and that the crown jewel shines brighter than ever before. at the president's direction, i will have the honor to service chairman of this commission and it is a privilege to convene this first meeting today. president trump knows that this transitions party lines and this committee has brought together a distinguished up a bipartisan officials at the federal, state and local level. this bipartisan group will perform a truly nonpartisan service to the american people. toould especially like recognize our vice chairman, you you will hear more from after the president' us remarks, a man whose long service has established him -- the president's remarks come a man whose service has established him. president trump knows that the principle of one person, one vote is foundational to the americ

when it quieted down, coolidge turned to pyle to see how he was. he was lying, faceup on the ground, and quivering. the sniper had shot him in the left temple, killing him. pyle's voice was not yet silenced. in his pocket when he died, was an unfinished column, reflecting on the victory in europe. the column, he wrote, were for the boys, my friends for so long. my one regret of the war is that i was not with them when it ended. he hope to do and could be a gigantic relief, but not in relation. for in the joyousness of high spirits, it is so easy for us to forget the dead. essence, explained in that the world was now divided between those who have burned into their brains forever the unnatural site of cold, dead men, scattered over the hillside, in the ditches, along the high roads, throughout the world. those who had see not, and those who had not. dead men, by mass production. in country after country, month after month, year after year. dead men in winter, summer, in such familiar promiscuity, that they became monotonous. dead men in such monstro

president calvin coolidge reminded us that the whole system of american government rests on the ballot box and president reagan declared the right to vote is the crown jewel of american liberties. by establishing this commission, actionnt trump is taking to make sure the crown jewels shines brighter than ever before. i will have the honor to serve as president -- chairman of this commission and it is a pleasure to be here today. president trump knows this transcends party lines and i am proud this commission has put together bipartisan election experts and federal officials. together this bipartisan group will formate truly nonpartisan service to the american people. i would especially like to recognize our vice chairman who you will hear more from after the remarks. a man whose long-standing record has established him. appointed by privilege, would like to express my thanks to connie lawson who joined us as part of this panel. president trump knows the principle of one person, one vote is foundation to the american system of democracy. this system has been charged to study the registr

president calvin coolidge reminded us that the whole system of american government rests on the ballot box. president reagan declared that the right to vote is the crown jewel of american liberties. establishing this commission, president trump has taken action to ensure the ballot box remains, and that the crown jewel shines brighter than ever before. at the president's direction i will have the honor to serve as chairman of this commission, it is a privilege to convene this first meeting. president trump knows it transcends party lines and i am grateful this commission has brought together a group of fromtisan election experts the federal, state and local levels. together this group will perform a truly nonpartisan service to the american people. to recognize our vice chairman, who you will hear more from after the president's remarks. a man whose long service has established him as a leader of integrity. as a point of personal privilege would like to express my thanks to indiana secretary of eight. who joins us is a part of the panel. president trump knows the principle of one perso

harding and calvin coolidge. now i would say warren g. harding was the worst president in history. they said that once mr. coolidge got in office the only way you could recognize him from the furniture in the oval office was if he moved. there was a woman sitting next to him in a dinner party. knowing it would be a while before we got the democrats back at the white house again mr. roosevelt decided to go work on wall street and he needed a good secretary, so he asked me to come work for him and i said i don't know mr. roosevelt, i'm fine at walberg about the most boring thing in the world. there are not any lawyers in the room, are there? i didn't think so. you all look very nice. ask any rate, he said don't worry. his children started calling him a cd and before that everyone did it. don't worry i find the wall worked very boring myself. there will be other things to do there will be all sorts of causes. in 21 he went to the island and the bear, he was stricken with polio perhaps better known as infantile paralysis, which is a terrible disease for a man who is 39-years-old and 6-

it did not have that rigidity you saw not only in hoover but the coolidge administration.d come in the kitchen and critique what they were eating, seems like you are eating a lot of food here, he was very nosy which was not his persona. >> what about the wilson administration? he segregated the civil servants. >> during the wilson administration they still had segregation but wilson was a southerner. there are a lot of reports of him celebrating the southern food cooked by white house staff. i don't know about interaction between wilson and those others. there was more during the harding administration. >> the harding administration did what? >> there seemed to be a feeling of camaraderie and harding was really big on waffles. he loved waffles. the cook that would make these waffles was celebrated in newspaper articles. her name was alice howard. don't waffle on waffles. he waffled in a good way as a president. >> a simple question. you know if daisy bonner and mrs. nesbitt ever met? that is one question and 2, i haven't read your book yet. mrs. nesbitt's dismissal was, i

then in 1924, president calvin coolidge declared the statue of liberty a national monument. and in 1933, the statue of liberty was added to the national parks service system and the national parks service has been the managing operation of the statue of liberty since then. i've worked at a lot of different parks. and our job here is easy. our goal as interpreters is to connect people to the resource. and i've worked at replica forts and lighthouses that we move. but here at the statue of liberty in ellis, it's easy. rangers pointing to things, all you have to do is to point at this wonderful work of art, and it's an emotional experience for a lot of people, whether they have a personal connection, family that immigrated through ellis island or something like that, people connect to this place very easily. it can be very emotional, because it's an amazing experience. during the early 1900s, during the immigration movement, for those overcrowded boats, when they sailed into the harbor and they saw the statue of liberty, for them, you know, she was an emblem for the pursuit of

so it didn't seem to have that the rigidity also with the coolidge administration he would actually cut into the kitchen to say you are eating a lot of food. he was very nosy. >> they still have the segregation that he was a southerner. for him celebrating the southern food cooked by the white house staff. i don't know about the interaction but he loves their food. but the harding administration there was camaraderie there also big on waffles. intercable is alice how word. >> so did mrs. nesbitt than bonner ever meet? and if that dismissal i don't know if we actually met. it was over something very silly because mrs. truman wanted a stick of butter and mrs. nesbitt refused to give it to her. [laughter] that was just the final blow and was gone a short time after that. >> that is a great question because after that to become maitre d and another guy who serves to get prominences the white house and then becomes of the treaty later. that was the event over a stick of butter. >> the chief of -- that position is it tenure or is it carried on?. >> day serve at the pleasure of the president s

the era after one or two where first about economic department-- remember he was born in 1925. , coolidge is in the white house or didn't say much and didn't think he had to impose himself every five minutes on the american people like other presidents. in fact he was known for not saying very much at all. the government did much less. america thought it had learned from its crusade in europe and decided not to repeat it. the world was at peace in the country economic situation was booming. well, as bill was getting older he's witnessing by the time of his teen years administration coming to power, a completely new world when he returned from the army 1945. suddenly we are talking about mixed economies, not free market, which he thought was really secularism by another name. we had the aggressive kind that we saw. remember that parades of the gis coming home after world war ii. so, we had that form of tyranny, but then we had the midnight kind, the kind that gets elected in a free democracy, but suddenly feels it has to run more and more of that economy and they were teaching this at yale

of all the way through a calvin coolidge but in the '30's that made the difference with the inventionics 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? >> we want gove

we have to channel our inner coolidge. someone has to.o keep spending money and moving the shells around. >> there are too many different factions even within both parties. some of the cutting the spending was supposed to be part of the republican version of the healthcare act. so there is some efforts under way. but they can't be -- there hasn't been enough agreement between moderates worried bill pact back home. kennedy: they have to go boldly into cuttingland and they don't want to do that. the freedom caucus, they want to cut entitlements and the moderates of the tuesday group have become the new democrats who are total statists. they don't mind making the government so big it will collapse of its own weight. >> the politically difficult thing of taking things away. only thing people want taken away is their taxes. kennedy: they want entitlements and free program and all the dependencies the government created. but republicans are playing the same game. but people want their money back, too. >> the mid-terms are looming. everyone worr

of heated >> police say jones got into a fight with minor on a metrobus just as she was leaving coolidge high school. it was over a cell phone and spilled out into the streets. police say jones pulled out a knife stabbing miner once before taking her cell phone back and leaving the scene. they had a history of fighting. jones tearfully told the judge she never intended on killing anyone. >> she's going to do all she can to fulfill what the other young lady is not able to fill. >> but miner's family is angry. they walked out of court feeling as though six years in prison wasn't enough, and that justice wasn't serve. her mother said, quote, she killed my daughter and got away with it. there's no words that will bring miner back but jones seemingly did what she could to describe her sorrow. >> from her heart she cried out to the family to i'm going to show you the child who passed is going to be part of me. >> at 6:35, it was brand-new near opening. now demolition crews are tearing down what's left of an apartment building in college park. the complex along purpose house road was under cons

we have to channel our inner coolidge. someone has to.ep spending money and moving the shells around. >> there are too many different factions even within both parties. some of the cutting the spending was supposed to be part of the republican version of the healthcare act. so there is some efforts under way. but they can't be -- there hasn't been enough agreement between moderates worried bill pact back home. kennedy: they have to go boldly into cuttingland and they don't want to do that. the freedom caucus, they want to cut entitlements and the moderates of the tuesday group have become the new democrats who are total statists. they don't mind making the government so big it will collapse of its own weight. >> the politically difficult thing of taking things away. only thing people want taken away is their taxes. kennedy: they want entitlements and free program and all the dependencies the government created. but republicans are playing the same game. but people want their money back, too. >> the mid-terms are looming. everyone worried

kennedy, nixon, pierce, coolidge, they all had conditions that people had raised. dangerous thing once you get into the mental disability area, because that is when you can really get a lot of political mischief. you know, when a member of congress said, just google narcissism, if you do that, it would apply to probably two-thirds of the members of congress, you know. >> tucker: i don't think that's true. i think it would apply to every single one. i don't know any of the 435 who would fall outside that description. i guess the point is, everywhere you go in lefty news world, you are hearing about the 25th amendment. but it is not as simple as a couple of left-wing congressmen getting together and deciding, i don't like the president. were moving him. we are in paneling and 11-dr. panel, or whatever. this is a process that is very unlikely to happen because it would be hard to pull off. am i right? >> would be very hard to pull off. in fact, in that second option, you need a two-thirds vote of both houses. but even if it were possible, what people have to keep in m

energy sector, the automobile sector over and over and over again relentlessly, that's what calvin coolidge said, and he's right. liz: i think it's finally after subpar growth for at least ten years. >> i have a very smart friend who is in the for profit education sector, and stressed for the first time in her life, she feels it's smooth sailing as the winds are at her back ever since we got trump as president. that's a very good feeling, and i think that explains a lot of the stock market rise. liz: yeah, but senate republicans renewing a health care bill. maybe the republicans could get to a vote happening maybe next week. the house may join the senate and working through the august recess to get it done. ben, the idea is just pass something. get it done and fix it after. i mean, that's what happened with obamacare. they kept tweaking obamacare. but let's go through it, ben. the legislation does keep taxes on the wealthy. it's more than that. it provides billions of dollars for insurance companies to stop premium increases, some conservatives don't like that. preexisting conditions are st

as calvin coolidge said, when you do not know what to do, do the work that is in front of you, and that is what the president is not doing it is to talk about the scandal for the democratic party. >> melissa: i don't know if he is declining to do that work, because they're working on health care, tax reform, and i don't know what if we know what is going on behind closed doors. you know, you and i both tweet a lot. i don't know this is about us, chris stirewalt. >> nobody would make as president. speak to the white house briefing is underway, but it is another off-camera affair pair will bring you the latest as soon as it is available. this is new polls, you heard chris talk about, talking about the president's job performance. plus, new information on the deadly funding in arizona. authorities announced missing person is not who they previously thought. >> the search and rescue people heard somebody screaming for help down by the river. we went down there, and they found a man clinging to a rock, and the water has come up tremendously. they could hear other people screaming. people wou

>> as you know, i've been around for a while, since the coolidge administration actually. [ light laughteral. he was -- >> seth: yeah, very quiet guy. >> there you go. the thing i've found out, much to my -- sometimes paying a heavy penalty is you got to do the right thing. look, i praise the president when he does the right thing. he has a national security team around him which is outstanding. when he responded to those children being gassed by bashar al-assad, i praised it cruise missiles in. so where i think he's doing the right thing, and that's to a large degree our national security, then i'm with him. but on other things, you've just got to do the right thing. i was elected by the people of arizona, and i've got to do what i think is right for them. >> seth: do you -- [ applause ] yeah, absolutely. you mention his national security team. of course part of that national security team was now-disgraced michael flynn. >> general flynn, that's right. >> seth: are you worried sometimes, that even when he's surrounded by the right people, he is distracted and maybe doesn't listen to them

president calvin coolidge reminded us in his words, quote, the whole system of american government rests on the ballot box and president reagan declared, quote, the right to vote is the crown jewel of american liberties. a by establishing this commission, president trump is taking action to insure that the ballot box remains inviolate and the crown jewel shines brighter than ever before. at the president's direction i will have honor to serve as chairman of this commission, and it is a privilege to convene this first meeting today. president trump knows the integrity of the our electoral system transcends party lines. i'm grateful this commission brought together a distinguished group of bipartisan election experts and public officials from federal, state and the local level and together this bipartisan group will perform a truly non-partisan service to the american people. i especially like to recognize our vice chairman who you hear more from after the president's remarks, a man whose longg service established him as national leader on election integrity, kansas secretary of state kris

president calvin coolidge remind us that the whole system of voters rest on the ballot box.he right to vote is a crown jewel of american liberties. by establishing this commission, president trump is taking action to ensure the ballot box remains fair. at the president's direction, i'll have the honor to serve as chairman of this commission and it's an honor to convey in this first meeting today. president trump knows that the integrity of our electoral system transcends party lines and i'm grateful this commission has brought together a distinguished group of bipartisan election experts and public officials from state and local level. together, this bipartisan group will perform a truly nonpartisan service to the american people. i would especially like to thank our vice chairman who will learn more from after the president's remarks, a man whose long service has established him as a national leader integrity very, chris colborne. as a point of personal privilege, i want to access my thanks and privilege to the indiana secretary of state, connie lawson who joins us as a par

when a republican was returned to the white house the first of three republicans coolidge and hoover. it was only when fdr came back that wilson came into office that wilson began to be remembered. but even at that time he was despised by the intellectual movement. walter whitman, george cannon, john maynard kane, ch car, the list could go on and on. >> he was also dislikes by as time went on, the left in the united states. they saw him as a person who actually was talking about peace and democracy as a front for pressing american economic interests abroad with a strong military. in other words, this was kind of a system approach. it was widespread in american universities in the 1960s particularly in the 1970s. >> but the right didn't like him either. the right didn't like him because he was for strong government and because he, well, if you were a realist, seemed too idealistic and too much of a moralist. >> the bottom line on this was that wilson was simply not appreciated and once most recently has been opposed of course byafrican-americans . those who have followed black lines ma

he said all movements start off this way and he wrote a year before i was born that calvin coolidge won one of the largest landslides in american history. america was a piece, it had no welfare state, all of that. eight years later franklin roosevelt wins in the 1932 elections. but let us build. >> we needed the depression in there. >> but that's what he wrote, was always went down to the state, take us in this and we will be back and of course you talk about nixon and the southern strategy, they are back in four short years, somebody thought goldwater went down that four short years later he would be president and we be talking southern strategy and the richard nixon's who had a much more moderate stance , even liberal stance as compared to present that. >> let me ask you, what was buckley's attitude toward nixon because although nixon was reviled by the left, mainly for this excessive anti-communism, he was more liberal in most ways i. so what was buckley's attitude toward him? >> nixon when he passed away, buckley said that it's amazing how conservatives run from nixon that for all o

>> as you know, i've been around for a while, since the coolidge administration actually. [ light laughtere president when he does the right thing. he has a national security team around him which is outstanding. when he responded to those children being gassed by bashar al-assad, i praised it that he responded by sending the cruise missiles in. so where i think he's doing the right thing, and that's to a large degree our national security, then i'm with him. but on other things, you've just got to do the right thing. i was elected by the people of arizona, and i've got to do what i think is right for them. >> seth: do you -- [ applause ] yeah, absolutely. you mention his national security team. of course part of that national security team was now-disgraced michael flynn. >> general flynn, that's right. >> seth: are you worried sometimes, that even when he's surrounded by the right people, he is distracted and maybe doesn't listen to them? >> yes. i am very worried about that. because sometimes i've seen him do things or say things that he isn't listening to them. but i know he respects t

when you -- as calvin coolidge said, when you don't know what to do, do the work that's in front of youh care bill done. stuart: so in your estimation, there's not going to be an august recess. there is no way on god's green earth that lawmakers can go away when they haven't completedded health care reform or tax reform. >> well -- [laughter] i mean, if they stay and don't do anything -- so the thing that they don't want to do is have a symbolic work session in august, because these people have to go campaign. the reason that there is an august recess isn't for them to go to the beach. this is the time that the 2018 cycle really starts in earnest. they want to go home. they want to be in their state, press the flesh. they're not going to stay here just for a symbolic action. and mcconnell, mitch mcconnell is basically telling them, look, you have one more chance to pass something that looks comprehensive on obamacare, or i'm going to bring you the pain. and the pain -- and this would not be hard to imagine, that before they leave for an august recess, mcconnell brings forward a patch fo

and calvin coolidge stated that protecting american industry enables our people to live according to a better standard and receive a better rate of compensation than any people, anytime, anywhere on earth, ever enjoyed. we are now, under the trump administration, reclaiming our heritage as a manufacturing nation. we are fighting to provide a level playing field for american workers and industries. other countries will cease taking advantage of us, believe me. we are going to build works of beauty and wonder -- with american hands, american grit, and american iron, aluminum, and steel. no longer will we allow other countries to break the rules, steal our jobs, and drain our wealth. instead, we will follow two simple but very crucial rules: we will buy american and we will hire american. already, we have created over a million new jobs this year -- and doing even better than anticipated. we are just getting started -- believe me, we are just getting started. for every job that comes back to this country, and every factory that reopens, and every town that is revitalized, we aren't just