President Calvin Coolidge

[cyberpolice9000]

Calvin Coolidge was the best President in history because a) He was the most libertarian, and b) He recognized that the President is an employee of the people, not the other way around. Today's Presidents try to be heroes. We don't need heroes. We need Presidents.

[murphy6700]

That was his actual voice and was not distorted.

[RoosterCogburn1008]

Is his voice that high because of his accent, or is it just the tape?

[Jibbahrish1]

Under rated, a hands off the constitution-protective pro business, quiet unassuming intellectual that if could be brought forward to challenge our ways in government, surly there would be less spending. Unaffordable FEMA, Freddie Mack- Fanny mae... Socialism be dammed, rugged individualism lives in New England thanks to true leaders like Coolidge and my grandfather. The federal reserve has been lynched, social security soured... Start a new era by supporting your local farmers!

[BrotherAtticus]

There are OTHER Calvin Coolidge fans out there? Am I...am I seeing this right?

[Marksnotebook]

I hate progressive ideology...this man knew what he was talking about...

[cinemafreak666]

@Marksnotebook

What are you talking about. Government grew in the 1920s. One of the main causes of the roaring 20s is the technology and industry created in WW1 by Woodrow Wilson. Taxes were reduced because taxes were really high to pay for WW1, spending was reduced because most of the spending was due to WW1. So we took away the tax rates that paid for the war and the spending that paid for the War. However taxes were still three times higher than pre-WW1 levels and spending grew

[cinemafreak666]

@Marksnotebook

Every section of the government increased, spending increased on every section of the government. Aside from military spending which was decreased every other section of the government grew and saw more spending. Taxes while were shrunken were only shrunken because we had no more war to pay for but the tax rate was still three times higher than pre-WW1 levels. There were more anti-trust laws and cases, more government programs, tariffs, Government corporations, and more.

[BrotherAtticus]

Woodrow Wilson and FDR both disliked this. NO ONE interrupts insane, World War-era Progressive agendas! NO ONE!

[sexydarin1]

Known for his frugality and common sense, Coolidge said in his inaugural address: “I favor the policy of economy not because I wish to save money, but because I wish to save people. The men and women of this country who toil are the ones who bear the cost of government. Every dollar we carelessly waste means that their life will be so much more meager. Every dollar we prudently save means that their life will be so much the more abundant.”

[Sistarovat]

Calvin Coolidge was THE best president of the 1920s.

[kwg2000]

@Sistarovat How? He pretty much just continued the policies of the Harding administration.

[TheSuigeneris1986]

Coolidge presided over a robust economic boom that, *unknown to those at the time*, would climax with the Great Depression. BUT real wages rose faster than at any other time in the 20th century and over 90% of Americans paid no income tax. Of those who did pay taxes, over 90% of revenue came from the wealthiest Americans. Coolidge supported anti-lynching laws and a guaranteed minimum wage for women. He is misunderstood by BOTH conservatives and progressives alike. Truly an interesting president.

[cinemafreak666]

@TheSuigeneris1986

That is not true. Look at the economic statistics and historical charts. The income tax rate was 25% so yes people did pay taxes. It is a complete 100% lie that 90% of American's paid no income tax rates. Most Americans paid an income tax rate and the income tax rate was 25%.

Also the tax rate while being lowered compared to 1916. Taxes were only lowered because we had no more war to pay for however the tax rates in the 20s were still three times higher than pre-WW1

[cinemafreak666]

@TheSuigeneris1986

The reasons and causes of the roaring 20s varies, one of the main reasons and causes is the technologies created in WW1 under Wilson. Government spending and government in general grew every year under Harding and Cooldige aside from defense spending which didn't need more spending because there was no war we were in. Every other section of the government grew and spending in every section of the government grew. So technically government grew in the 1920s.

[killerbee2k]

my favorite US president

[Wallebille]

@killerbee2k you knew him?

[killerbee2k]

@Wallebille just sexually

[Zanmatt2g]

"Silent Cal"

[Skabur123]

Coolidge was ranked in the top 10 of the worst presidents of the US

[jtis30]

@Skabur123

By whom? Progressives?

[Skabur123]

@jtis30 Every president has bad, and everyone has good to them. Its the way the politics pendulum swings ..gets old after awhile.

[theelijahcam]

calvin rock

[peachkim]

I am a black progressive, and I know that Coolidge repeatedly called for anti-lynching laws to be enacted, but most Congressional attempts to pass this legislation were filibustered by Southern Democrats. Much respect to him!

[Aetius76]

@peachkim That was Harding that called for the anti-lynching laws. His legacy has been crushed by his crooked friends and progressive history writers. Harding was a common American, yet simple and brilliant altogether. A total shame he gets no understanding in our history books.

[Willredd94]

@peachkim THose were the good old days for Republicans. Fiscally conservative, pro-business, pro-civil rights and isolationist.

[RileyE104]

@Willredd94 Isolationist? Non-Intervention is the term you're looking for. And Republicans like Coolidge are still alive. Just look at Ron Paul and his son and a handful of other new-comers to Congress that were recently elected.

[Willredd94]

@RileyE104 Well yes they were non-interventionist, but unlike Ron Paul (who is NOT an isolationist) Coolidge supported raising tariffs and little to no trade. Robert Taft, the leader of the Old Right even said he believed in Isolationism, which was very popular during the era 1918-1941.

[RileyE104]

@Willredd94 I hope the coming years see a resurgence of the Old Right - paleoconservatives, libertarians, constitutionalists / Whatever you want to call it, is what is going to fix America. That and finally getting rid of Keynesian-economics and replacing it with Austrian-economics. If America can return to these principles we can be saved from going over the cliff that we've been steadily falling into.

[Willredd94]

@RileyE104 I agree completely. I just can't wait for the next Calvin Coolidge to be president, both politically and by personality. We need a president who isn't afraid to not get involved in people's affairs, both American citizens and other countries around the world.

[TheArtistOfKuroo]

@RileyE104 Because Coolidge's deregulation of the financial sector and refusal to fix prices on farm prices totally didn't play a significant part in causing the Great Depression and Dust Bowl. No, the liquidity trap that caused the banks to fail in 1929 is by no means the result of the same deregulation that caused the same problem in 2008. Totally.

[RileyE104]

@TheArtistOfKuroo People like you are the same people who WANTED to create a central bank, the Federal Reserve, back in the early 1900s. Well guess what? Your precious central bank that was commissioned to PREVENT any more great economic catastrophes FAILED by causing the Great Depression. They have also failed in their so-called efforts to stabilize the value of the dollar, seeing as how it has been devalued by over 97% since the FED's inception.

[coldkeyes]

"People should work less for the government...and more for themselves"

[babyface10725]

The Best President we ever had!

[jahellaspartan]

though he was a great president (and i do agree) he would of been an even greater president if he had challenged and then abolished the making of the federal reserve bank, irs, state dept., cia, and yes, (even in those days) the rise of corrupt lobbysits at capitol hill... then my dear friends every american back then and even today would have an even louder praise for american freedom and liberty!!!! kudos to president coolidge!

[robotmonkey73]

@jahellaspartan The FED was created in 1913, about a decade before he was president and thus he had no power to stop it.

[buzzclick500]

@robotmonkey73 : But WE did. ;]

[lovejustin33]

i have to do a projecton him

[jaay334]

rooring 20s . Maybe we can have a rorring 2012 to 2022 lol god bless us all i hope so

[buzzclick500]

@jaay334 : We can do it, if we want to.

[DBJW82]

Does anyone realize that the problems we face today are due to cultural problems? You cant afford that house, that car and all of these nice things, thats ok, because our governments motto has been that no matter what your situation, we will give you that loan and whatever else you need, but when one person goes bankrupt, its a tragedy, when a million do, its a national crisis. Too many people are irresponsible. In fact Coolidge hated this attitude then, and Im sure is rolling in his grave now.

[nolaeast]

"Does anyone realize that the problems we face today are due to cultural problems? You cant afford that house,"

I guess predatory lenders, AKA loan sharks, had nothing to do with it, or are you simply going to deny predatory lenders exist?

[perezDeSanFernando]

Predatory lenders, loan sharks etc. are merely a symptom of the problem - not the cause.

The cause is the Federal Reserve. The predatory lenders could act as such because of the easy credit policies that were made possible by the lowering of interest rates by the central bank.

The Federal Reserve was the instigator of the Great Depression and the problems we face now.

You won't solve the underlying problems with more government regulation - the central bank has to be dealt with.

[DBJW82]

I would love for a liberal to come on here and tell me that what Obama is doing to this country to produce prosperity is better then what Coolidge did and we will be better off for it. Again, if we really wanted to be a socialist country and redistribute the wealth, we still wouldnt be able to because there is no wealth to distribute lol. Yes, Bush was a kid with a credit card too. What is our debt up to now?

[DBJW82]

Yikes. Slavery? I dont think so. Isolated incidents that were just reports and possibly not even true. No way was that the fault of Coolidge.

[DBJW82]

Liberals just hate the fact that a President who actually preserve protected and defended the Constitution and who practiced fiscal responsibility and small government can produce great results for the country. Government is not and never will be the answer. Its sad that they actually want to try to blame things that happened in this country well after he was out of office. Read your damn history. Could he have regulated wall street? I suppose, but thats been tried and the same things happen.

[billyguns2]

These same liberal hypocrites praise Obama for bailing out Wall Street criminals and pursuing endless war; if he were a Republican they would be screaming to high heaven! Hypocrites!

[nolaeast]

The forcing of people back into slavery is considered as a "small problem" in your opinion? Wow! I guess it only becomes a big problem when it is U being enslaved

I am not questioning Coolidges VIEWS on African Americans, I am questioning his ACTIONS, or lack there of; clearly that was a time for action in preventing the force slavery of African Americans in Mississippi during a time of great prosperity and great calamity in this nation. Liberals like men not manikins as leaders.

[DBJW82]

Sorry, Coolidge had little to do with the depression. He presided over one of the greatest periods of growth ever in this country. The market crash that happend 6 months after he left office did not cause the depression as soon after it stabilized for almost another 6. The depression did not start till a good year after he left office. Its a leftist argument that today serves little purpose. Massive intrusion by both Hoover and FDR prolonged it for what? 12 years?

[nolaeast]

Coolidge laissez-faire government style set up the down fall for the market crash and widened the gab between the haves and have-nots. Thus, he did not run for his second term, knowing the good times were coming to an end soon, i.e. 6 months after he left office. With cutting taxes for the rich and doing nothing about an economy in which three quarters of Americans spent all of their annual salary on basic necessities, eking out a modicum to survive on, he failed as president.

[DBJW82]

Ahh the old haves and have nots. The redistribution of wealth argument. In order to redistribute wealth, the government has to have it. Something the government did a good job of under Coolidge with reduced taxes, spending and paying down the debt. But Coolidge was not a socialist, nor did he have to be. Unemployment was a whopping 3.3%, middle class lived well, the rich lived well and everything boomed. A President who presided over peace and prosperity is an awful president but those who...

[DBJW82]

intervened in tough times and kept the country in depression or recession and got us into overseas bloodbaths are Gods. I get it now! Though that has been the liberal view for sometime now. God forbid we all have jobs, more money in our pockets, peace and freedom. Im sure you and the rest of the liberals would have just hated living in the 20's with all of that!

[perezDeSanFernando]

As I alluded to in my other post, the problem wasn't that people were free, taxes were low and government spending was reduced. Low taxes and spending is obviously good. Being "rich" has nothing to do with it.

The problem was that the Fed printed loads of money, which resulted in businesses and industry mistaking this money for real investment from the private sector. This funny money was used to produce lots of stuff, build factories, employ loads of people etc. Hence the boom. Continued...

[perezDeSanFernando]

However, this stimulus was artificial. It lead to a load of mal-investment and misallocation of labor and resources. Once it was realised that people weren't buying the stuff, because they didn't have the money, the house of cards came tumbling down. What happened at the end of the 1920s in exactly what happened at the end of the 2000s.

The problem wasn't that there was a wage gap - if the Fed hadn't distorted the market, speculators and investors couldn't have been so reckless. Continued...

[perezDeSanFernando]

Ultimately, when Hoover made the depression worse than necessary, by increasing taxes and spending, this lead to Roosevelt being elected, which proved to be one of America's greatest mistakes. Roosevelt's policies put the "Great" in Great Depression.

It's amazing how history is repeating itself today. However, I suspect we won't have another Great Depression, since everything was bailed out. Instead, what this decade might see is the "Great Inflation" and the collapse of the dollar.

[DBJW82]

Its once again a case of people looking to the government to solve all the problems even though they are the cause of most of them. Today even when it comes to natural disasters, people are stupid enough to point fingers at Presidents while some are even stupid enough to say they created it. What I wouldnt give to have a President like Coolidge today. Unfortunately society today would be appalled at a President like this. One who actually preserved protected and defended the constitution.

[nolaeast]

I respectfully disagree. What people expect from their government is leadership and far-sight. Coolidge was a do nothing president that helped usher in the worst depression of this countrys history. Him and his master of emergencies, Hoover showed little far-sight and even less leadership during some of the worst times in this country. It took two great Democratic Presidents 20 years, FDR and H S. Truman, to dig the country out of that hell hole they left it in.

[DBJW82]

@nolaeast They expect leadership that is true. Coolidge did what all other past presidents did when disasters struck. He left things up to the states. A little thing called the constitution was something he was trying to preserve protect and defend while he was president. That my friend is leadership. Ill say it again. He was loved by the American people. It showed at the voting booth and it showed with slogans like "Coolidge Prosperity" or "Keep cool with Coolidge". That was from the people.

[nolaeast]

According to John M Barrys 1997 book, Rising Tide, "Coolidge had done nothing until he had to, until Mississippi Governor Dennis Murphree wired; "Unprecedented floods have created a national emergencyThis territory will be a water covered one in twenty feet in twenty four hours containing population 150,000Highways coveredRailroad operations suspendedBeyond capacity local and state agencies to relieve and control."

[nolaeast]

U stated "Coolidge was loved by the majority of the American people."

Maybe it was due to the fact that many were silence by the powers of that time. Horrific conditions were experience by many African Americans as they were forced back into slavery and forced to work on the levees of the Mississippi. Both Coolidge and Hoover turned a blind eye to these conditions and simply did, "NOTHING."

You were right about society today being appalled at a president like that.

[DBJW82]

@nolaeast That was a small problem which was practically irrelevant. Are you trying to question Coolidge's view on African Americans? If you are, its not worth it. Coolidge knew that all men were created equal and did not do anything to make people think that he thought otherwise. That was done by liberal heroes such as Wilson locking people up who disagreed with his war, as well as FDR putting japanese Americans in camps.

[nolaeast]

Coolidge like Bush ignored one of the worst catastrophes in the history of this country. Coolidge ignored the flood of 1927 and Bush ignored Katrina of 2005.

[DBJW82]

When will people finally understand that the federal government cant intervene in a states problems until the governor of said state lets them in? Its fundamental law. As far as Coolidge, he was doing what other presidents in the past did when it came to natural disasters. He let the states handle the mess and to pay for it. He delegated Hoover to be in charge and if you read the reports on that flood, the whole process went rather well. Coolidge later on signed a bill for monetary relief.

[nolaeast]

@DBJW82

"federal government cant intervene in a states problems until the governor of said state lets them in?"

If by this statement, you are implying that Governor Blanco request to President Bush was late during Katrina, thus causing Bushs slow response, I disagree.

Coolidges response to the 1927 flood was slow. Just like Bushs response to Katrina, S L O W. That was my point. They both ignored the severity of the pending disasters and were reactive rather than proactive.

[nolaeast]

@DBJW82

"As far as Coolidge, he was doing what other presidents in the past did when it came to natural disasters."

An unprecedented flood called for an unprecedented response from the serving president. The people were looking for leadership, not a copy response.

[DBJW82]

@nolaeast - Coolidge was loved by the majority of the American people. They actually liked the fact that he stayed out of pretty much everything. Again, he put "the master of emergencies", Hoover, in charge and if you read the reports(wiki) on the whole response effort it was said that it went pretty well. It was different back then as well. Responses would have been slow no matter what as there were no quick ways to get to the damaged areas. The only issue people had with Cal was money.

[PatriotsFan01752]

I will let President Coolidge speak for himself:

"The people cannot look to legislation generally for success. Industry, thrift, character, are not conferred by act or resolve. Government cannot relieve from toil. It can provide no substitute for the rewards of service. It can, of course, care for the defective and recognize distinguished merit. The normal must care.for themselves" Calvin Coolidge, 30th President of the United States, 48th Governor of Massachusetts

[DBJW82]

Grimey - Why do you post that false info on the coolidge pages? He was known as "Silent Cal" but the American people had a slogan of "Keep cool with Coolidge". Im guessing the you are just trying to be funny with the two words story, and ill admit, it is funny imagining him say that, but you know as well as I that he told the woman "you lose".

[frankgrimes17]

Known as Cool Cal, Calvin Coolidge was known for his silence. A woman once said to him "I bet my friend I can get you to say more than two words." He answered saying "Fuck you."

[Speegs23]

Coolidge 2012.

[CoolCoverBro]

@Speegs23 Ron Paul comes close.

[ekocentric]

"Silent Cal" was the only prez sworn in by his father....a notary public.

[mrwario1]

I may go as far as to say that this is the best president of all time, I mean he made the roaring twenties!! If he ran for a 3rd term, he would've helped more than Hoover.

[DG3744]

He Was A KKK member!!!

[docmagnus]

You are a misinformed fool. Coolidge was NOT in the Klan.

[DG3744]

yES HE WAS AND SO WAS hUGO l. bLACK! So u need to get ur info correct! look it up u fuken retard!

[billyguns2]

A great President.

[staniscanner]

A great president

[mic32vic31]

@staniscanner no he's not he was BOOOOOOOOOOORING. he did ABSOLUTELY NOTHING!

[Cyrus255]

@mic32vic31 Nothing is better than sending thousands of americans to die on the fields of Iraq, Afghanistan, and now Libya.

Nothing is better than endless taxation and regulation which makes business run overseas (I fled communist USA and took my jobs with me to capitalist China which had lowered tax rates, and lower government spending as a percent of GDP, than the US).

[whoo689]

wow! This is what Silent Cal sounded like? Reminds me of Ross Perot.

[sounddiv]

not really..this sounds really stripped down/washed out and "tinny". a curse of the time's recording equipment... there's better audio of him around :-)

[DavidM28659]

it's no accident that Coolidge did a better

job as P resident than Harding did: he was more intelligent!

[DripsofWater10]

i just saw this cuz i got hw

[lizardman77]

Laissez-Faire has never been tried here, go look up the federal register, regulations have INCREASED by thousands of pages, there is no deregulation, another myth bites the dust.

[bittergunowner12]

This guys got that aristocratic New England accent..

[bittergunowner12]

Him and Hoover are so underrated, the unregulated lasseiz faire economy screwed us into the Depression.

[switchhitter07]

Wow I'm very glad to finally hear a Coolidge speech. Ive always looked at him as one of our great presidents. He is very underrated. Everyone raves about how great the roaring twenties were, so Id like to make a point - The president during the roaring twenties was Calvin Coolidge. Perhaps the most feel-good time of the century was headed by Coolidge. That's says alot in my opinion.

[ClUbPenGuIn0wNz]

a agree finally i find someone who likes coolidge and thinks he was underrated just like me! i think he was one of our greatest

[bphutchins]

coolidge did pretty much nothing, and certainly had nothing to do with our prosperity. he allowed big business to run amuck with NO regulation and we all know how that ended

[bittergunowner12]

Give some examples on how he screwed up then.

[bphutchins]

you already said it below, laissez faire economics with no regulation is doomed to failure, he encouraged that... you're a strange person

[bittergunowner12]

Can't blame Hoover for it though, I'm sure you'd love to do that, the economy was in the shitter if you really think about at the time.

[bphutchins]

you are a complete idiot. I totally showed how you were talking bullshit on the TR clip, so you came here and started trolling. Every time you say something, you take a dig at me, a sure sign of stupidity.

[bittergunowner12]

A sure sign of stupidity? LOL. Yes I guess graduating near the top of my class in high school and earning a Bachelor's Degree obviously makes me incredibly stupid. Your the one who is talking bullshit. Your how old 30? Do you still live at your mom's? LOL.

[bittergunowner12]

If your a libertarian then why do you blast people with similar political views?

[bphutchins]

because you come across as a total prick

[bittergunowner12]

So do you... lets stop flaming.

[JSenator06]

Where are you living, we don't live in "laissez faire" capitialism in the USA (and much less in Europe and Can), even before the Bush Presidentcy?? The Democrat Woodrow Wilson officially ended any semblance of "laisse faire" when he signed our economy over to the Unconstitutionl Federal Reserve..Are you sure you want "regulation (more)", becuase with Obama you're about to get your wish!!..

[vccstudents]

Kudos on the comment on NOBAMA, THE COMMANDER IN THIEF, and MODERN-DAY ROBIN HOOD! After today we can say there are 1,383 DAYS TO GO! MITT ROMNEY/BOBBY JINDAL '12!

[JSenator06]

I agree, except instead of Romney/Jindal I support Sanford/Pence/R. Paul 2012! GOD BLESS!

[JSenator06]

Ooops I think I misread your comments, I am sorry, friend ;)!

[ParadiddleMcFlam]

Hoover did not minimize government. He increased it. He passed a horrible trade tariff, did not allow wages to fall so as to maintain employment, and was really the biggest intervener until FDR. It is a complete myth that he did nothing. He viewed society and the economy as if it were a task of engineering, which is a dangerous and false idea. Still, he wasn't the cause of the depression, though he certainly made it worse. It was Fed policies, just like today.

[bittergunowner12]

Actually Hoover started the New Deal it was it bit more watered down though, FDR just put it in a different wrapper and nationalized the economy.

[ParadiddleMcFlam]

Proves it how? Numerous economists will say precisely the opposite. A central bank is not laissez-faire economics. If his plan was so great, why was 1937 the worst year of the depression? Why is it that real growth didn't begin until after WWII when spending was cut? Make work and war don't lead to prosperity. They are pure waste.

[JesseKantstopolis]

This is a very interesting video. Thank you for posting it. Calvin Coolidge was a good president. However Martin Van Buren was better.

[JustBigT]

Martin Van Buren? For what, his avoidance of broadening the US?

[rappoltpierre]

not even Coolidge was the best.

[JesseKantstopolis]

Derek your wrong. It is the Federal Reserve that created the Great Depression and it was further economic planning that prolonged the Great Depression. The long duration of the Great Depression that required total war to end is in stark contrast to America's first Depression. Martin Van Buren's handling of the depression and its duration of only 4 years proves that FDR's economic intervention only prolonged the depression. I suggest you read the Road to Serfdom by Friedrich Hayek.

[DGillUCO]

It would have started alot sooner except the Very Conservative supreme court that continually blocked almost all of FDR's programs until 1937-38. THats when you started seeing a gradual improvement in the economy...then WWII just created a boom

[WilB1972]

Funny - He sounds exactly the way I always imagined! His voice really fits his look. Kinda mousy, LOL.

[TolsmaLMC]

Weird to think that my grandfather (born 1921, God rest his soul) was only a little boy when this was recorded.

[WarDogs42]

He was a good man, more of a public servant than a politician.

[CadillacL]

This is amazing to be able to listen to a part of history. Love to hear from other presidents....I've listen to Teddy Roosevelt, etc

[startover942]

That is so true, to be able to hear such history. The great thing is that these sound bytes (can't imagine Rutherford B. Hayes using that term) can be preserved for close to forever now.

[EvansAtlanta]

Coolidge is from an era when regional accents were far more pronounced than they happen to be today. He is the archetype stoic New Englander, short on speech, and fervently cautious. The 20th Century would have been far more sublime if we had more of his ilk, and come, in intellectual quarters, to respect his beliefs far more than there opposite.  We have been more Coolidgesque in America the past 27 years, and for the most part, been better.

[wahunga]

Well said!

[EvansAtlanta]

Thank you.

[billyguns2]

The greatest President of the 20th Century, IMO.

[aspie25]

Why, because he did absolutely nothing while he was in office ?

[mrandquist]

He actually did quite a lot while President. He is often forgotten because of the many major events that took place after he left office. One must also look at how the people of the time regarded him and he was so popular that he could have had a third term if he wanted one.

[Buddy212002]

I agree! Hoover was the loser, not Coolidge. Hoover had been appointed to every job he had. Coolidge was a much better politician and he probably would have done a better job handling the Depression, but it was a job he didn't want to take. He called Hoover, "Wonderboy" and "Superman."

[billyguns2]

Calvin Coolidge, unlike most U.S. Presidents, actually did "preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States." He didn't meddle and he didn't cause death, destruction and mayhem; most "historians" reserve the "great" title to those idiots such as Wilson, who plunged us into an unnecessary bloodbath and set us on idiotic courses.

[BigBlueBeast]

Was he the first president ever whose voice we could hear?

[twojstary732]

The first president of the United States whose voice was recorded was Benjamin Harrison.

[billyguns2]

I see that someone has removed all my comments; so much for freedom of speech.

[Cooman456]

Huh... I didn't know Calvin Coolidge even spoke. They called him "Silent Cal". When asked if he was running for reelection in '28, he handed the reporters a note saying "I will not run for reelection" and left.

[fruticetum]

Poor Calvin would flip in his grave the way the damn Democrats tax and spend today.

[chrispollock]

republicans are spending us into a deficit which is why dems call for tax increase. so take away irresponsible spending, and tax increases won't be necessary

[fruticetum]

I'm sorry, but the damn Democrats are in charge of the purse strings, and they haven't restrained themselves one bit on spending.

[pbcinla]

Ron Paul is the only Republican running for president as far as I'm concerned.

[corydwalker]

Uh, yea. whatever.

[corydwalker]

Uh, yea. whatever.

[colonicvillus]

i love calvin coolidge, a real conservative

[njg1623]

just recording was not as good so people sound goofy

[AliKhan567]

people's voices back then were soooo weird...

[belairbolt]

He was weened on a dill pickle. lol

[ridgerunner72160]

Borch,

I'm a southerner and he doesn't sound like any of us. He sounds like that old geezer who used to be on the Pepperidge Farm commercials. I know some yankees though and none of them sound like him. They have a weird accent and pronounce words like car or barn as 'cah' or 'bahn'.

[AvalonianKnight]

OMG! You're right, he DOES sound like the Pepperidge Farm guy!

[ridgerunner72160]

LOL...I'm glad somebody besides me thinks so too. And although I'm a southerner from Louisiana, I have a couple of friends from Worcester, MA who were telling me that not all New England yankees sound alike. I think Coolidge (and maybe the Pepperidge Farm guy)were from Vermont and their accent is nothing like the people from Massachusetts.

[Waldocounty]

ridgerunner: The Mass. ("Boston") accent is unique in New England. The northern New England accent is different, though Rhode Islanders often speak more like northern NE than Mass. or CT. Coolidge was a Vermonter born and raised. A different form and inflection of the general New England accent, therefore. I'm from Maine; he sounds like my kinsmen.

[ridgerunner72160]

We southerners are the same way. My girlfriend is from North Carolina and she has a much different accent than those of us who are from Louisiana or Texas.

[pbcinla]

Is Ross Perot not Calvin Coolidge reincarnated?

[kidboomer12]

i am related to calvin coolidge i guess he is my great great great great grandpa or somethin but easier distant relative

[queenannegrl]

It's interesting to hear people from long ago talk from the U.S. They sound different than people of today.

[billyguns2]

I have a soft spot for this witty, taciturn Vermonter; he restored dignity and integrity to the White House. I liked his take on taxes, too, and he respected the Constitution. He must be turning over in his grave at the current situation of spendthrift money robbers.

[funnyaccent]

Definitely my favorite President.

[TeflonMaster]

Best president ever.

[borch1260]

Sounds like a hillbilly.

[fishhead06]

He was from Vermont.