harding brought coolidge in, they had discussions before the inauguration about who to pay, coolidgeas in the cabinet meetings, one of the first vice presidents to be invited. they passed a budget. the u.s. government did not have a budget before warren harding. most people don't know that. there was no comprehensive budget like we do now. he named charles dall to that team, he was instrumental in getting control of spending and cutting wasteful spending. they cut spending 50%. his economic team was very good. he had herbert hoover as secretary of commerce, he was instrumental in helping in trade and things like that. susan: one of the interesting historical footnotes that you mentioned in the book is is a former senator, he had senate floor privileges. he was able to nominate his cabinet right on the senate floor. what was the impact of that? ryan: it was an ingenious move. i have never heard of any other president -- even as a former senator, you always have floor privileges. he walked down to the floor and said here's my cabinet. we have problems in the country, i need them confir

coolidge called him wonder boy.hoover was a good businessman, he was a mining engineer, and he did great humanitarian things in world war i, but as secretary of commerce, coolidge had no time for him because he was a big government guy. even though he had the hoover institution in stanford which is all about free markets, hoover himself -- hoover took the tax rate from 25% to 65%. i know there was restricted tariffs during these republican years, but not like that. it was a terrible mistake. it turned what was a modest downturn a major depression, than fdr, in my view, made it worse because he kept raising taxes and kept regulating and kept controlling prices. i am reading these books and i like to productize about these books. i love the gilded age stuff personally. if i had to do it over again, you could kind of plot me -- i would have liked to have been -- i don't know, grover cleveland, a democrat, is one of my favorite presidents. he was a pro gold, spending cutter, would not fathom the income tax, from buffalo

calvin coolidge was another guy, liberals coolidge.maybe the first law and order guy, he was the guy stopped the police in massachusetts, he was tough on crime. that's a big issue today and andrew mellon was the quarterback read a/tax rates and space last bending. and they even slashed the federal debt. i don't care about that as much. they had unbelievable prosperity in the 1920s. again, another industrial age . literature, arts, everything. and unfortunately, herbert hoover came in and even though he was a republican and he served in coolidge, coolidge called him, hoover was a good businessman. he was a mining engineer and he did great humanitarian things as secretary of commercecoolidge had no time for him because he was a big government got . even though he had the hoover institution in sanford, hoover himself took the tax rate for 25 to 65 percent. and the smoot hawley terrace and determine what was a modest downturn into a depression and fdr made it worse because he kept raising taxes. kept controlling prices. so i'm reading this

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. >> a day i'm very happy to be here i am from the coolidge foundation, welcome to this live audience welcome to our c-span viewers, here we are pretty close to wall street and wall street market these days are out of fashion. when we think about capitalism we stop and apologize and part of this younger people don't know much about markets and we all see cartoons. markets are so valuable they are a gift to us and we think of them as a gift but if we go way over to the left away from wall street socialist think of the market as a gift to because the logical proposition is given a 20 or three trillion dollar economy we will send the money and redistributed, the market, the money the wealth is assumed by everyone but markets are like souls the economy is like souls they are like human and they can make a choice a market can choose to come back or choose to stay away. the problem the fragility the decision to stay away that is a problem nationally we have to keep the markets happy, what is an example of that, i will mention one example we all live among character cultures, an example is s

my name is tracey messer, with the calvin coolidge presidential foundation. thank you all for being here this morning. on three occasions mr. coolidge wore a black armband as a symbol of mourning. on the death of his predecessor, warren g. harding, on the death of his 16 year old son, calvin junior, and on the death of his father, colonel coolidge. i wonder if any of you can speak to the tradition of wearing a black armband as a sign of mourning? when did it start, and when did it seem to go out of fashion? >> i know that i should be able to comment on this, but unfortunately i do not know the history of that. it is not really in style now, you don't see it now. unfortunately, that is a really good question i don't have the answer. >> sir? >> yes, thank you, sir. nicola, i had the privilege of marching in president kennedy's inaugural parade. and, that was my plebe year and my -- at the naval academy. and my first class year i had the privilege of leading the honor company that marched in his funeral procession. and the marine band, the u.s. naval -- national

my name is tracy messer with the calvin coolidge presidential foundation. thank you all for here this morning. on three occasions mr. coolidge wore a black armband as a symbol of mourning on the death of his predecessor warren g harding on the death of his 16 year old son calvin jr. and on the death of his father colonel coolidge, and i was wondering if any of you can comment on the tradition of wearing a black armband as a sign of mourning when did it start and when did it seem to go out of fashion? i know that i should be able to comment on this, but unfortunately, i don't know the history of that. but yeah, but it's something that isn't really in style now. you don't really see it now. but yeah, unfortunately that's a really good question and i don't have the answer. sir yes, thank you, sir. nikolai. i had the privilege of marching in president kennedy's. inaugural parade and i had to also that was my plea beer and my if the naval academy and my first class year, i had the privilege of leading the honor company. ah that marched in his funeral procession.

i'm amity slaves from the coolidge foundation. welcome to this live audience. welcome to our c-span viewers you know, here we are. pretty close to wall street in wall street and wall street and markets these days are at a fashion. when we speak about capitalism and markets and business we often stop and apologize, right? and part of this hesitance is that younger people don't really know much about markets or wall street except cartoons, right but markets are so valuable. they are. a gift to us and we think of them as a gift. but if we go way over to the left away from wall street socialists think of the markets as a gift too because they're logical proposition is given colon a 20 or 30 trillion dollar economy. we will spend the money thus and thus and redistribute it the market the money the wealth is assumed by everyone. but markets are like souls the economy is like a soul. they're like humans and they can make a choice a market. can choose to come back or it can choose to stay away and that? that problem the fragility. of markets that the decision to stay a

i am amity slaves from the coolidge foundation. welcome to this live audience and our c-span viewers. here we are pretty close to wall street and these days they are out of fashion when we speak about capitalism and markets we often stop and t apologize. part is that younger people don't know much about markets except cartoons. so, markets are so valuable. they are a gift to us and we think of them as a gift, but if we go way over to the left from wall street, socialists think of it as a gift because the logical proposition is given a 20 or 30 trillion-dollar economy, we will spend the money. onthe market, the money, the wealth is consumed by everyone but the economy they are like humans and they can make a choice. thet market can choose to come back or stay away. the fragility of markets, the decision to stay away, that's our problem nationally. we have to keep the markets here and keep the markets happy. what's an example of that i will mention one example because again we all live among caricatures. an example, saturday's off. w

calvin coolidge was a very feeble man. he did not like the idea of having a special train for the president said you can put my car in the rear of the train of a regular chamber don't do a special train. while in december of 19207 i think was in chicago there are two places in that city. and he decided he would go to a regular compartment and a regular sleeping car and i believe the name of the car's president grants of all things. he would eat there, he would sleep in that compartment, mrs. put before trains were air-conditioned, the car was very hot even though it was in december. so we had to sit there in his compartment with the door open and everybody on the train who walked past throughout the train walked through the aisle and look in there and gawk at him. and he did not like that. the very insecure situation with the secret service threat. i remember one time that waiter asked him as your coffee all right? he just said yes. then later he asked his wife why would he say that maybe there is something wrong with it.

i'm amity shlaes from the coolidge foundation. welcome to this live audience, welcome to our c-span viewers. .. we often stop and apologize, right? part of this, then people don't know much about markets are wall street except cartoons, right? so markets are so valuable. they are a gift to us and we think of them as a gift but if we go way over to the left away from wall street, socials think of the market as as a gift, , because their logicaly' proposition is given a 20 or $30 trillion economy, we will spend the money and redistributed. so markets, theey money, the wealth is consumed by everyone. but markets are like souls. the economy is like a soul. they are like humans and they can make a choice. a market can choose to come back or it can choose to stay away. and that, that problem, the fragility of markets, the decision to stay away, that's our problem nationally. we have to keep the markets here and we have to keep the markets ushappy. what's an example of that? i will mentionxa one example because again we all live among ca

but one of the reasons that people liked grace coolidge so much is because the three first ladies who came before her were widely considered to have too much power. so, edith wilson and helen taft and florence harding all were very powerful first ladies. grace benefited from that. >> there is a blow back, though, isn't there? >> always. >> not being elected, for the first ladies who come after a first lady who is perceived as powerful, whether they want to cut back or not, they feel the pressure from the public. >> we have a question here. >> yes. i have heard edith wilson referred to as our first female president. >> [laughter] >> i'm also surprised in this discussion that you haven't mentioned eleanor roosevelt. that isn't my question. my question is, political writers and pundits are very free about ranking our best presidents and our worst presidents. and i wonder if you would go so far as to maybe talk about who were our good first ladies and who were our worst. i know a lot of people -- they are not elected. they are thrust into the position. some people rise to the occasion and

. >> with calvin coolidge. calvin coolidge was a very feeble man. he was -- and he did not like the idea of having a special trained for the president. he says, so you can put my car on the rear of the train, a regular train, but don't do a special train. well, he took off in december of 1927, i think it is in chicago, [inaudible] there were two places and that city. he decided he would go in a regular compartment, in a regular sleeping car, -- and i believe the name of the car was the president grant, of all things. and he would eat in the diana, sleep in that compartment, he found out before trains were air conditioned that the car was very hot even though it was in december. so, he had to sit there in his compartment with the door open, and everybody on the train who walked past throughout the train, walking along the aisle and look in there and gawk at him. and he did not like that. he would use his meals in the diner. which was a very insecure situation, the secret service felt. i remember one time the waiter asked him, was your coffee all righ

professor watson is served on the board the harry truman foundation calvin coolidge memorial foundation and the george mcgovern library and center for public service. professor watson has served as a visiting scholar with many organizations including the truman presidential library for ford presidential museum ellen i holocaust museum u.s. military to west point. now let's hear from robert watson. thank you for joining us today. >> flow everyone i'm robert watson and i'm here to talk about my latest book noel the epic struggle to build a capital city and a nation any american school child knows that george washington was heroic and stoic. he was a great and courageous commander on the battlefield and of course one of our greatest presidents who what he did and didn't say carved up the initiative for the presidency but what we don't always does that george washington had another side to him specifically a visionary and a dreamer and he could be a political player. by the same token almost all americans have been to our capital city. americans love their capital capital city. it's a spaci

to $20,000 during interject son's presidency and stayed that amounted to the presidency of calvin coolidge. as you can imagine, that money went quickly and wasn't evenly distributed across the rooms. so, since these funds didn't go very, far this meant fixing broken items, re-gilding, re-upholstery, and shifting items between rooms to address or concerns and, when necessary, selling outdated or wanted items that public option and using the proceeds to buy new items for the house. in 1826, congress passed legislation that mandated that all furniture purchase for the white house should be as far as practical be of american domestic manufacture. this is included as part of the appropriations bill, there were ways around this. as we heard, with for example, the china services. many of which were french made and were brought to the united states and then purchase for american firms. the white house, was after all, an office and a home in an extremely accessible one at that. this greatly affected the house, it's appearance at its furnishings. in 1840, to author charles dickens, yes that charles

there's also a crash westbound 5 80, just east of coolidge in oakland, and we do see some slow, stop and go traffic all along out. oh, southbound 8 80 down from stanley under to hayward and beyond taking a look at the richmond san rafael bridge toll plaza. things are okay. although we do see some stop and go traffic there as well. 7 41. here's steve paulson. thank you , ali. we will start in old town scottsdale. why? because there's a lot going on down there. jorge torres. he's with ko before in phoenix. lighting whitening lights up a palm tree. and old town scottsdale, and it is still raining. there is a ton of rain down into phoenix north phoenix. it's moving west, though, but there have been some flooding on. i 17 there's been a lot of reports has about 1 to 2 inches around. looks like it's now moving fast out of the area, but some of that, starting to head in the southern california and also up the sierra and boy, was it active yesterday. mark leave ill 5500 ft beautiful little area, but they had about two and a quarter inches of rain. in two hours. there were two readings of a h

i'm amity shlaes from the coolidge foundation. to this live audience, welcome to our c-span viewers. .. we often stop and apologize, right? pa

$20,000 during andrew jackson's presidency and stayed that amount until the presidency of calvin coolidge. so as you can imagine the money went quickly and wasn't evenly distributed across the rooms. so since these funds didn't go very far this meant fixing broken items regaled in reupholstering shifting items between rooms to address different concerns and when necessary selling outdated or worn out items of public auction and using the proceeds to buy new items for the house in 1826 congress passed legislation that mandated that all furniture purchased for the white house should be as far as practicable be of american or domestic manufacturer. while this was included as part of the appropriations bill there were ways around this as we heard with for example, the china services many of which were french made and were brought to the united states and then purchased from american firms. the white house was after all an office in a home in an extremely accessible one at that. this greatly impacted the house. it's appearance and its furnishings in 1842. authored charles dickens. yes that cha

course, the fdr was lost the race for vice president during that election that elected harding and coolidge. he got polio the next year. so one a couple of winners he spent on his houseboat tooling around the caribbean where they would enjoy grog every night. now what was in the grog? i don't know, but i think probably it may be another name for a martini and then also at the little white house where he was said to have had a bootlegger who supplied him with moonshine. so the government was making efforts to control this out of control criminal activity, but they were so outmanned and so outgunned and it was so easy to bribe a prohibition agent because they were poorly paid poorly trained and so many of them had kind of gotten into the enforcement business just to read the rewards of the the bribery of course the most famous of the of the infamous gangsters was al capone and even though my book is about the south lo and behold i found out that al capone was from chicago had spent a lot of time in the south. there are so many places that he was said to ovulate his head. it's kind of like was

smith is not when that was the famous conventionally where 103 ballots and the republican calvin coolidge won that election. in 1928 al smith's running again for president he gets the nomination. and the he needs somebody to run for governor on the in the ticket here in new york. and he's thinking i need somebody well known. i like roosevelt. he's a friend of mine. i would like him to run new york was a swing state. can you believe that in 1928 swing state? tammany hall upstate agriculture and business wall street so fdr doesn't want to run he's down in warm springs smith and eleanor are at eleanor's active. she's at the convention in rochester the state convention. smith wants to get wants of fdr on the line. he stays away from the phone and away from the house. finally honor says, okay. i'm not going to promote this with them, but i'll get them on the line smith convinces him. it's his duty to do it. and you know, he decides yes as a good soldier the party i will run. louis howe and eleanor didn't want him to run lewis howe had said it's not a good year to run. the republicans are ridin

try to imagine george washington saying my friends are calvin coolidge. the roosevelt understand the modern presidency and pioneered it more than anyone else and it's going to create an intimacy with the country. i don't think we want to -- they are the head of one branch of one of our many governments. >> host: who are the ideal president in your view and who did it right? ronald reagan was famous for communicating with the public and most conservatives look at the ghost of raisin and say -- the ghost of reagan and say bring themm back. >> host: is wrong to save president should be front and center all the time communicating all the time.e. when he was making his brief run for the democratic nomination for the presidency in 2020 he tweetedtw "from the nuclear president he won't have to think about forpr weeks at a time. >> host: do you think you mentioned the advent of radio. certainly social media has changed the game for all campaigns not just the presidency and how they communicate and how if you witness that change the cassette hasn't only changed ho

the ladder of public esteem as secretary of commerce in the cabinets of presidents and coolidge. hoover became one of the three or four most influential men in the us government. in certain ways, he was a progressive and reformer. he openly the doctrine of let's say. fair and advocated some governmental regulation of private enterprise. but he also emphatic plea rejected old world social schism and outright government of business. he called his political in a book of that title american individualism, a philosophy grounded in what he called america's most precious social ideal, the ideal of equality of opportunity. hoover was too much of an engineer to content himself merely praising america's social. when the nation's economy fell into a severe recession in 1921, he warren harding to convene presidents conference on unemployed. with hoover as chairman and driving force this highly publicized conference laid, the intellectual foundation for his presidential response to the great depression a decade later, the conference popularized the idea that government should not sit still du

or calvin coolidge to pick another of my heroes. but roosevelt understood the modern presidency. in fact he pioneered it more than anyone else. he was going to create anew intimacy with the country . i don't think we want it to be intimate. they are the head of one branch of one of our many governments. >> who's been the most ideal president in your field. who did it right or at least came close. because ronald reagan was famous for communicating with the public and most conservatives look up to those who write in and say bring him back . >> there's nothing wrong with communicative with the president . it is wrong to say the president should be front and center all the time, communicate all the time. when the senator of colorado was making his brief run for the democratic nomination for president in 1920. he tweeted vote for me and you'll get a president, you won't have tothink about for weeks at a time . that was for him. >> you think we talk about this you mentioned the advent of radio but certainly social media changed the game for all campaigns. not just the presidency and ho

and we all love mike white and jennifer coolidge. you go [ laughter ] thank you for that no spoilers. wow. >> i am playing against type >> jimmy: yeah that's amazing >> big time. >> jimmy: you're always typecast you're always the woman who's not on vacation. >> exactly i would never do that. >> jimmy: you would never go on vacation with your husband and his friends. uh-uh. >> no, no, no. >> jimmy: how did you end up working on this? >> mike and i -- actually we've been friends for a long time so, we were trying to come up with something else to do together and then the pandemic happened and we ended up -- and then, he just ended up, you know, bringing me to the party >> jimmy: i can see you guys totally working -- >> it was crazy. >> jimmy: yeah i mean, you've been out there for five months? >> five months yeah, that's a really long time >> jimmy: yeah do you speak italian [ speaking foreign language [ cheers and applause [ speaking foreign language >> yeah, but i was out there for five months. the show's epic. there's all kinds of -

as secretary of commerce that are harding and coolidge he brought california nevada, arizona, utah, new mexico, colorado and wyoming. all states that had water rights to the colorado river he brought them all together to agree on the colorado river compact which gave us hoover dam and all the the benefits of hydroelectric power dam. and just that -- alone of the entire compact now provides water to 18 million customers that sells power generated by its turbines to nearly two million customers in nevada, california and arizona. today there are 15 dams on the colorado river that provide recreation as well as hydrologic power and water to many metropolitan areas across the west. now this just touches on the surface of what you would find the museum. here's a photo of great grandad on that same day, august 10th 1962 on the day of the reded of the day of the grand opening and the dedication. he was there with his friend harry truman. as they open the library and walk through the front doors. and then here's a picture of what the library looked like shortly after that dedication. it serves as

he was already a justice, he was a coolidge appointee in the 1920s, and roosevelt did that in the summer of 1941 as a sort of bipartisan, nonpolitical move. and that's a lost art. that was a great thing that the president -- >> he's a member of the liberal minority though, budget he? >> he was not one of the four horsemen. >> right. and interesting, frankfurter actually opposed the court-packing plan, right? i mean, he was -- >> in his private heart. he held it and did not do anything publicly. >> roosevelt became very frustrated with frankfurter. so we're going to go back this time for a minute, and then we're going to come up to the present day. so i want to go back and talk about why the supreme court has this power to determine what's a constitutional law and what's not. and it really goes back to the very founding days, the early 1800s, with a rather extraordinary legal case of marbury v. madison. and we'll start with you, ralph, talk a little bit about this and why this lays the foundation that basically said, well, the supreme court gets the final say. >> was that to me? >> yes. >

other person that i think we all forget is that roosevelt elevated harlan -- to be a republican a coolidge appointee to the court, in the 1920s. roosevelt did that in the summer of 1941 as a sort of bipartisan non political move. that is a lost art. that was a great thing for the president to do. >> he was a member of the liberal minority, wasn't he? >> that's correct, he was not one of the four horsemen. >> interestingly, frankfurter actually opposed the court packing plan, right? >> in his private heart, he held his powder and did not do anything publicly. >> roosevelt became very frustrated with frankfurter. we are going to go back in time for a minute and then we are going to come up to the present day. i want to go back to talk about why the supreme court has this power to determine what is constitutional law and what is not. it goes back to the very founding days of the early 1800s with the rather extraordinary legal case of lamar barry versus madison. let's talk about this and why this laid the foundation of why the supreme court gets the final say. >> was that to me? well -- versus