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Silent Cal
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| Term Paper Title | Silent Cal |
| # of Words | 599 |
| # of Pages (250 words per page double spaced) | 2.4 |
Silent Cal
An American President
Fun Fact: Calvin Coolidge, a president of few words, was so famous for saying so little that a
White House dinner guest made a bet that she could get the president to say more than two words.
She told the president of her wager. His reply: "You lose."
At 2:30 on the morning of August 3, 1923, while visiting in Vermont, Calvin Coolidge
received word that he was President. By the light of a kerosene lamp, his father, who was a notary
public, administered the oath of office as Coolidge placed his hand on the family Bible.
Coolidge was "distinguished for character more than for heroic achievement," wrote a Democratic
admirer, Alfred E. Smith. "His great task was to restore the dignity and prestige of the Presidency
when it had reached the lowest ebb in our history ... in a time of extravagance and waste...."
Born in Plymouth, Vermont, on July 4, 1872, Coolidge was the son of a village storekeeper. He was
graduated from Amherst College with honors, and entered law and politics in Northampton,
Massachusetts. Slowly, methodically, he went up the political ladder from councilman in
Northampton to Governor of Massachusetts, as a Republican. En route he became thoroughly
conservative.
As President, Coolidge demonstrated his determination to preserve the old moral and economic
precepts amid the material prosperity which many Americans were enjoying. He refused to use
Federal economic power to check the growing boom or to ameliorate the depressed condition of
agriculture and certain industries. His first message to Congress in December 1923 called for
isolation in foreign policy, and for tax cuts, economy, and limited aid to farmers.
He rapidly became popular. In 1924, as the beneficiary of what was becoming known as "Coolidge
prosperity," he polled more than 54 percent of the popular vote.
In his Ina
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