I think the Bushes would have liked President Coolidge, though I often wonder what nickname 43 would pick … - Amity Shlaes

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Amity Shlaes

I think the Bushes would have liked President Coolidge, though I often wonder what nickname 43 would pick for 30. President Bush has great respect for his father, and so did President Coolidge, whose father was also in government, albeit in a smaller way.

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Coolidge thought budgets were virtuous. He had his econ straight. He didn't just cut taxes, he also cut the budget.

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Fame is worth less than service.

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Coolidge and his treasury secretary Mellon loved new technology. Like JFK, C. C. divined that a new technology could lift the nation out of its doldrums; the only difference was that JFK's new technology was space travel, and Coolidge's travel by airplane.

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The lucky biographers find themselves drawn into a sort of friendship with their subject.

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Anything can be done if you find friends to do it with.

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