derby officials keep the cars at coolidge high school gymnasium. so the cars can't be ordered. and then they do leave all the cars in track when take your car off, you worried about them being careful with your car? you you don't want them there is steering system of the brakes. the other boys had some pretty good races. they were quite good pretty fast. i had to pop up my car so the wheels wouldn't get flat. i got real tense when they started lining because i wasn't in first race greg was in first attorney general kennedy started race. the racing system and he and the winner from each of three cars comes back races again one oh right. okay great. well all. i don't know about the other guys but when i get on the ramp from the long and nervous because i'm too busy on other things like getting ready to steal my car or getting in a good position. so i get to the car and you go and inhale. 35 or 40 miles and now the wind in your face and people cheering and you stay down low in the car stage, gated you get the maximum speed is an exciting feeling as you get to the bottom of the my

host: you also may be bound to comment on the washington post, cites calvin coolidge. the role of the vice president involves little more than waking up and checking the president's health in the newspaper. guest: [laughter] it is a really good quote. there have been some colorful ones. john adams said the american people invented the most useless office for him imaginable. i think it was john nance garner who said i'm not going to use -- i'm not going to use the actual phrase -- but he said the office was a warm bucket of spit. he used a different word. vice president have not particularly enjoyed that position. host: with us this morning is lindsay chervinsky, executive director director of the george washington presidential library at mount vernon. about 15, 20 minutes for you to call in. phone number explained as usual. democrats, (202) 748-8000. republicans, (202) 748-8001. independents, (202) 748-8002. john is in buffalo, new york. independent read good morning. caller: good morning. i have something to piggyback off of this topic and i think it is relevant becau

host: you also may be bound to comment on the washington post, cites calvin coolidge. the role of the vice president involves little more than waking up and checking the president's health in the newspaper. guest: [laughter] it is a really good quote. there have been some colorful ones. john adams said the american people invented the most useless office for him imaginable. i think it was john nance garner who said i'm not going to use -- i'm not going to use the actual phrase -- but he said the office was a warm bucket of spit. he used a different word. vice president have not particularly enjoyed that position. host: with us this morning is lindsay chervinsky, executive director director of the george washington presidential library at mount vernon. about 15, 20 minutes for you to call in. phone number explained as usual. democrats, (202) 748-8000. republicans, (202) 748-8001. independents, (202) 748-8002. john is in buffalo, new york. independent read good morning. caller: good morning. i have something to piggyback off of this topic and i think it is relevant becau

harding and coolidge phased it in. it caused deep recessions. larry: harding an coolidge did?oung researcher in those days. >> i called up coolidge. you talk to harding about it. larry: one thing in a constellation of troublesome ideas miss harris has endorsed and proposed with bernie sanders this one size fits all, essentially nationalizing "medicare for all," what they call, single-payer, whatever. variously estimated as much as $32 trillion. that is probably a low-ball estimate. how would that -- that would destroy any free enterprise. she wants an end to private insurance. this is something i think should be brought out. you're talking about how trump made all of these things more open, deregulated for example. they want to do exactly the reverse. now how would that impact ordinary people? >> it would impact a lot but what they're doing they're picking on the one industry already so misaligned with economic incentives. health care industry, our costs as a share of gdp, largest increase of any country in the aecd, our reductions in life expect tan say to the relative to the

the papers of 23 presidents from washington, the coolidge supreme court justices, notable figures, rosa parks, frederick douglass, all of these people that we know about in history. but also music legends george and ira gershwin, jonathan larson max roach. so go on the website and long llc echo. i think you'll be surprised. can anyhow, two questions. how do you work with local libraries and can anybody get a library card for the library of congress? if you're and older you can get a reader's card and that allows you access to the reading rooms that are in washington dc. but anybody can go on to the website and get information. we even on the website, something called ask a librarian and you can email library and you get a real time back. and so you have that and you also have the opportunity to participate in our virtual front door, we call it that. you can look at programs, you can do all of these things. the way we connect with libraries throughout the country and it's on display today at the convention center is called roadmap to reading each state and territory has a booth and we co

present made a mistake facing the bed reagan wasn't the only one kennedy did it and so did harding and coolidgeuse the processions see when did i don't remember that. art: i called them a young researcher and said you talk to harding about this. larry: in a constellation of these troublesome ideas, kamala harris has endorsed and propose with bernie sanders. one-size-fits-all nationalizing medicare for all with a valid single-payer whatever. furiously estimating as much as $32 trillion is probably a lowball estimate and how well that would just destroy any free enterprise was an end to private interests of this is something that i think should be brought out. you talk about trump made all of these things more open committee regulated for example they wanted to exactly the reverse now have that impact ordinary people c3 with impeccable but with her doing is that began when industry that is already so misaligned of economic and it's an accident healthcare industry and apostasy share gdp the largest increase of any country in the - the reductions in life expectancy relative the biggest declines in

time when they sort of used indians as props at these meetings and you see, oh, pictures of calvin coolidge or somebody an indian headdress and but that they were there to do business. i mean, and even in the 19th century, indian delegates would come to the capital and they thought they were here to do business. but, you know they were sort of treated as. exotics, you know, to and be observed and. looked at instead of instead of instead of being dealt with honorably. so it was a big change. yeah. and think you were a big part of that change. right. because think you made a lot of that happen. oh. won't take credit for any of that. know we actually when the clinton house was just interested in indians they just were and presidents really set the tone you know we had spent quite a number of years under reagan and bush who may have been fine in other respects but their white houses care about tribal policy. they kind of didn't do any harm, but they didn't do any good either. the clinton white house didn't care. and i don't know if the president cared from the beginning or whether he figured it

a few how many have never been to the coolidge auditorium before?ow many of but never been to the national book festival before? okay. how many people here are looking forward to tomorrow? everybody? [applause] you will hear a little bit later about the history of the national book festival. i will not tell you much about it. it's an extraordinary experience for those have not seen it before. roughly one or 50 to 20000 people coming into the convention center looking to see the favorite authors. looking to hear from their favorite authors. looking to get books signed. looking to buy books and for children particularly, the chance to meet with other children who care about books, and to learn more about reading. it's an incredible experience. i try to think about reading, how important it has been to me it is not called the national e-mail festival. it's not called the national magazine festival. buyer books important to read? focus the brain when you break these books. you write a book takes a long time to write it and it shows you with the human br

remove his department secretaries a right which interestingly the supreme court upheld during calvin coolidge's administration. so that's now sort of permanently ensconced in the executive branch. i think that that is you know, it's an interesting thing to acknowledge that even presidents who so respectful of the separation and so of the rule of law also do push as an important part of defend in presidential authority. so we have one more question we'll be able to get to from our audience and it's interesting. it's kind of makes it relevant for today. and the question is interesting that each of these presidents policies were brought forward in many cases by their successors today a president upon taking office uses executive orders to reverse many of their predecessors policies. any thoughts about this contrast? sure i think as a political scientist, again, i think the dynamic is the same. in the 1800s. i mean, and in the progressive era. one of the reasons that taft so bent on legislation is that he wants his reforms of the reforms of the progressive era to endure, he understands the principl

of the next 120 years, millard fillmore, andrew johnson, chester arthur, teddy roosevelt, calvin coolidge, harry truman. and when johnson would all follow tyler's example in succeeding after the death of the presidents they served. but let's face it, when they served healthy presidents, vice presidents didn't have a lot to do. so sometimes they had a little side gig just to kind of keep him busy. martin van buren's vice president ran a tavern serving beer. harry hamlin, who is hannibal hamlin? abraham lincoln's first vice president listed in the army as a private, went off to fight the civil war. ulysses grant's second vice present wrote history books. teddy roosevelt thought about going to law school. harry truman played poker. i mean, there wasn't that much to look. they didn't even have an office in the white house because they were presidents senate. they hung out on capitol hill, in the capitol. they had offices there. no president actually even gave them an office in the white house until lyndon johnson came along. he's the first one to argue to get office in the white house complex

. >> tom, i was a coolidge tie guy and ken howard whilst he was alive was a huge "fast money" guy.s three or four appearances on katie was on with tyler hosting with the vix at 13 doing nothing for months she said you will start to see the vix move in ways that probably would surprise some people. i don't think she thought it was going to 60 but she was spot on with that. i don't think it's over, either. i don't think that move to 60 was a one-day event. i think there's morp vix to come, more volatility which i think means down side in the market. >> you said this, yield is down, dollar down, crude down, vix down. that's all a good little cocktail for stocks up, right. so, again, we're going into friday, who knows what's going to happen, i think it's a difficult setup from the stock market's perspective but to tim's point about peak margins, i was talking to dan niles earlier today and he referenced the fact that four of the mag sevens saw after q2 earnings their forward estimates come down. if you think about where revenue growth is expected next year, versus where it might end up

my parents grew up under coolidge and wilson and then of the seven roosevelt was there president for2 years. they grew up under fdr's whole thing. and then the only choice in los angeles was white, white. everything we saw happen in california from day one was racism and horrible schools in the cities and voting against black and i saw the destruction in los angeles where people like hattie mcdaniel had rooms because they were abandoned. everything was obliterated. host: we have run out of time. up next we will have national review editor in chief rich lowry, who will talk about vice president harris selecting minnesota gov. tim walz as her running mate. and we will talk about the role of black sororities and fraternities in campaign 2024 with khalilah brown-dean . >> what the democratic convention live monday, august 19 as the party fits with their presidential nominee. here the leader talk about the administration's track record in the vision for four years as they tried to retain the white house. the democratic national dimension live monday, august 19 on c-span, c-span now, or on

if you are going to skip the cliches, calvin coolidge. and least favorite, lbj.t is very, very dangerous when democrats control the house, senate, and presidency. i think the lbj period was the most destructive period in american history. the last time democrats had all three branches, wasn't that the first two years of the obama administration? yeah, took away my health care. i could not keep my doctor. i think that was an absolute disaster. but under lbj, we got the 1964 immigration act. and that has perhaps destroyed the country irrevocably. also got a lot of terrible, terrible dysfunctional social welfare programs. and he was just a really bad person. not that i care if your policies are good. host: anncoulter.com is the website. thank you for coming on this morning. guest: anncoulter.substack.com. host: i am so sorry. got it.thank you for coming on. guest: thank you. host: a half-hour left of "washington journal" this morning. whatever you want to talk about policy wise is on the table. you can see the numbers there. go ahead and start dialing in. we will be

if you are going to skip the cliches, calvin coolidge. and least favorite, lbj.t is very, very dangerous when democrats control the house, senate, and presidency. i think the lbj period was the most destructive period in american history. the last time democrats had all three branches, wasn't that the first two years of the obama administration? yeah, took away my health care. i could not keep my doctor. i think that was an absolute disaster. but under lbj, we got the 1964 immigration act. and that has perhaps destroyed the country irrevocably. also got a lot of terrible, terrible dysfunctional social welfare programs. and he was just a really bad person. not that i care if your policies are good. host: anncoulter.com is the website. thank you for coming on this morning. guest: anncoulter.substack.com. host: i am so sorry. got it.thank you for coming on. guest: thank you. host: a half-hour left of "washington journal" this morning. whatever you want to talk about policy wise is on the table. you can see the numbers there. go ahead and start dialing in. we will be

the papers of 23 presidents from washington, the coolidge supreme court justices, notable figures, rosa parks, frederick douglass, all of these people that we know about in history. but also music legends george and ira gershwin, jonathan larson max roach. so go on the website and long llc echo. i think you'll be surprised. can anyhow, two questions. how do you work with local libraries and can anybody get a library card for the library of congress? if you're and older you can get a reader's card and that allows you access to the reading rooms that are in washington dc. but anybody can go on to the website and get information. we even on the website, something called ask a librarian and you can email library and you get a real time back. and so you have that and you also have the opportunity to participate in our virtual front door, we call it that. you can look at programs, you can do all of these things. the way we connect with libraries throughout the country and it's on display today at the convention center is called roadmap to reading each state and territory has a booth and we co