Wasn't Calvin Coolidge the greatest President in American History?

Question

Some of you may not even know he was even a President, and most of you probably only have a vague idea of his policies from History class. However, he was President during an extraordinary, technological revolution that drove the US economy to incredible heights, the largest economic boom in US History. Americans were living the good life and reaping the economic benefits of the "Roaring Twenties." The stock market was high, everyone had a good job making great money, and was becoming wealthy. However, today no one attributes the economic growth of the 1920s to Calvin Coolidge. Most experts say this was just part of an econmic cycle. In fact, the same exact economic pattern occurred 70 years later during another technological revolution. Why then do many people attribute the economic boom on the 1990s to Bill Clinton? Do you think in 60 years Americans will still feel the same way about Clinton, or will people in their 20s then, only have a vague idea Clinton was even a US President?

Is everyone missing the point of my question? Only a couple of people seem to get it.

Smartass you are correct Coolidge's administration was mired by scandal and corruption; and yes not every one shared in the wealth generated during the 20s. However, for the first time many average Americans gained much wealth through the stock market. Does this sound at all familiar? And when Coolidge ran for election (his first term came when Harding died in office), he easily won. Does this also sound familiar to you?

Studbolt Slickrock, LMAO, that's pretty good!!

Jim W. will you at least try and learn, and attempt to end your ignorance? I guess you won't. Is the only thing you can do when confronted with facts and logic is make irrational statements?

When I make statements I ALWAYS supply facts to back them up. All you ever do is spout the same nonsense over and over. If you actually read my statements, and checked my sources you would know this. Stop your Clinton worship. He was a horrible President. I am not saying Bush is much better, but Clinton was just God awful.

Jim W:
Fact, for six of eight years of Clinton's Presidency we had a Republican controlled Congress that stopped his tax and spend ways. Clinton demonstrated this inclination during his first two years.
Fact, the way our System of government works is the President purposes a budget, the Congress makes changes to it, approves it, and the President signs it. The Congress is just as much responsible for the 2000 balanced Budget as Clinton, in fact probably more so, since Congress has discretion to change or reduce spending allocations.
Fact, there was a technological revolution that happened to occur while Clinton was President that created an economic boom. Clinton had absolutely nothing to do with the economic success of the late 1990s. Can YOU site specify economic legistration that Clinton proposed, or policy he enacted to created the economic success of the late 1990s? I guess not since you have never done this.

So Jimmy boy, I challenge you YET AGAIN, prove me wrong. Supply some facts to disprove my statements. What's that, oh you can't? That figures.

BTW, you are a hypocrite. Why do you send me racist emails, and have an unregistered email address, so I cannot respond to you? You have stated so many times how Conservatives don't publish links to their email addresses, like you do!

Ha, what a liar you are, all you have is a link to a dead email address!

Lastly, I did not report you genius, since you are so interested in my questions, why don't you try reading my third to last. If you can manage it, read the whole thing!!

Answer 1

Those who think Clinton was a good president because the economy did well while he was in office should be trying to get Coolidge on Mt. Rushmore.

Answer 2

People who say Clinton had a surplus are idiots, he reduced the deficit, but we were still in the red. Eisenhower had a surplus in 2 years of his 8 year presidency. No president since Eisenhower has had an actual surplus.


Coolidge chipped away at the federal powers that be, he believed in small government, and yes, I'd say if you mean the best president of the 20th century, I'd say if he's not the best he's well up there near the top.

Answer 3

Coolidge, like Clinton, had the great good fortune to be President during hot economy.

Unless you can point to specific policies that either of them enacted to create such an economy, I do not think they should be given credit for them.

For Coolidge, it was the rapid electrification of the US, and all the new industry and products that resulted. Also, that's about the time when most people could afford automobiles, resulting in a major expansion of the auto industry.

For Clinton, he was there to witness the start of the dot.com industry, which created a great deal of jobs and wealth where none existed before. It also had a great effect on the productivity of business.

Answer 4

Dont be fooled by the facade that was the economy in the 1920's. Al tough many people got rich quick, like future president Herbert hoover, most Americans either did not see any financial gain or where hurt by the over speculation in the stock market. Coolidge also hurt the economy by not upholding progressives laws like the Sherman anti-trust ac t and the Clayton Anti-trust act that put big businesses in check. His administration was also filled with corruption and scandal, the most famous being the Tea Pot dome Scandal which involved his secretary of interior Albert Fall giving conservationist lands to oil companies. Coolidge will never go down as a good president and many consider him to be one of the worsts due to his lack of control over his administration and his complete disregard for laws passed earlier that actually benefit ted the country.

Answer 5

No Effin Way! McKinley was THE ONLY president that can even be considered to be a president!

Answer 6

Who knows. Who cares.
I will do what YOU did last Thursday and,instead of answering the question attack who I damn well please.

Look at this crap you wrote about me a month ago:
"Jim W is this the way liberals act when confronted with logic. Just use obfuscation to cloud the issue and not answer the question? So I guess you do not dispute the facts. Fact, Universities are liberal institutes. Fact, Speech Codes are ubiquitous features at liberal universities. I am not making this up.
If you won't answer the question than don't respond to it."


"If you wont answer the question than dont respond to it".
Ha ha ha ha. What a HYPOCRITE you are.

That paragraoph describes yourself PERFECTLY. You dont think I see the ugly ENVY you show towards me?

Dont insult my intelligence.Your hateful personal attacks are unchristian,unpatriotic,and selfish.

Answer 7

They named a dam after Coolidge. No one gives a dam about Clinton.

Answer 8

Coolidge will never go down as one of the best presidents, but then he won't go down among the worst, Nixon, Reagan and Bush!

Answer 9

I am partial to Teddy Rosevelt and what he did during the depression with his New Deal.

Answer 10

cantu says it all.