Comments by "James Clendon" (@jamesclendon4811) on "Calvin Coolidge: The Silent President" video.

  1. I think of Coolidge often. When it's suggested that the government should forgive all student loan debt I remember his reply to suggestions that the US should forgive foreign nations' debts from World War I: "They hired the money, didn't they?"
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  2. I'm not arguing, but didn't Clinton accomplish a balanced budget, a comparable achievement?
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  3.  @KurtJohn3  Fair enough. So Coolidge's is a more impressive achievement.
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  4. Well that's one way to judge a person.
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  5.  @lydialady5275  I just googled "famous knitters," and sure enough Mrs. Coolidge is on the list, as is her successor Eleanor Roosevelt. Disturbingly, also on the list is Charles Manson! Cheers. (And I'm glad you took my original comment in the spirit it was meant).
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  6. My father was proud that on his high school senior trip to Washington D.C. he got to shake hands with Silent Cal when the class visited the White House. I guess school trips were different back then.
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  7. If you watched the video you would have heard Simon repeat that anecdote, though without the attribution. Another often repeated story, probably equally apocryphal, has someone (Alice Longworth? Dorothy Parker?), upon being told of Coolidge's death, saying "How could they tell?"
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  8. Really. It wasn't his fault he was shot. (Although it was probably his doctors' fault that he died from it).
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  9.  @brianwaloweek6770  So... the answer to my question is "Yes, he did"?
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  10.  @jerrybaharlias9809  Why did he go out on a limb? You have to realize he probably never heard of Calvin Coolidge until they handed him the script for this video. He just reads what's put in front of him.
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  11. Ah! So at least he got a bridge named after him. (Or was it named after the other guy?)
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  12. WAS considered. Until a year or so ago.
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  13. Ah, but a squeaky wheel gets the grease.
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  14. The whole video is built around a false premise--he is not nearly so obscure or forgotten as suggested here, to anyone with any awareness of US history. Granted, many Americans couldn't name any presidents before Trump (OK Washington and Lincoln maybe. But only maybe.) Coolidge is no more obscure than Taft or Harding or Hoover or Carter or Ford, as 20th century presidents go.
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  15. I am in awe of your persistence.
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  16.  @joshwhite5407  I don't know much about Ip Man, but he was a real person, not fictional.
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  17. Isn't he the one who walked a tightrope between the towers of the World Trade Center?
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  18.  @Galadonin  I think you realize I was joking, but I'm puzzled by your reply. You obviously know he was the opposite of a Resistance leader, and the Fifth Republic was founded some years after his death. I trust that you're merely joking too. Your original brief description of him is not incorrect, but your last one is no more accurate than mine was. In any event, yes, he would make a good subject for a Biographics video.
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  19. Who says that?
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