Thoughts?

Best president, he didn't do anything

>>3334664
Best US president ever, if you are a fiscal conservative you cannot disagree

>>3334667
It more like he didn't let anything happen

"You loose."

Probably the best presidential anecdote America has.

A charismaless Harding considering he was just following off of Harding's policies.

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>>3334676
lose*

Yessir. That's funny as hell.

If only more presidents were like Vermonters.

Excellent attention to the 1st and 2nd amendment, high taxes on the wealthy/landowners, people's rights are fucking respected, massive push for renewable energy, a try for single-payer healthcare, lots of Quebecoise qt's near by, excellent education and standard of living. Yeah they have a youth out-migration and heroine problem but who doesn't nowadays amirite?

And he is a cute kid. Read about how he was sworn in to office. Fucking made me swoon

>>3334667
Exactly.

>>3334670
He let economic recovery happen, and was determined to let government intrusion remain latent for at least as long as he was in power.

Coolidge spent his time napping and playing pranks on white house staff while the Great Depression was brewing and the worst agricultural crisis in American history was underway.

>>3334664
One of the best presidential trolls

>>3335019
I don't think you know who Coolidge was dude

>>3335071
Implying the Depression wasn't caused by Hackbert Hoover and the Hawkley Smoot tariff

>>3335081
Reciprocal raises in tarrifs played a part in depressing international trade but were not THE cause of the depression. Overproduction, especially because of easy money policies that flourished under Coolidge was what set the stage for the prolonged depression.

>>3335096
>make products
>makes loads of stuff to sell to other countries because of surge of foreign in investment
>oops you can't sell your stuff now
>oops Europe can't buy your stuff now
>US is fucked
>Europe is fucked

>>3335114
America's market was overwhelmingly domestic even before the tariffs. Luxury goods like Automobiles couldn't simply be dumped off on overseas markets, hardly anyone could afford them with or without tariffs. There simply was NOT a market large enough to absorb the incredible production that ballooned in the 1920s.

For example in 1926 America produced 4.4 MILLION automobiles and exported only ~480,000. There were an estimated 27 million cars worldwide at this time and Americans owned 22 million of them, over 80% of the total. Even if there were no tariffs, 90% of American automaker's sales came from Americans, if the American market couldn't keep absorbing their production (which it wasn't able to) there wasn't any market that could. The story is pretty much the same for every big industry in America at the time.

Compounded on this was the massive depression of agricultural prices because farmers kept planting more and more acreage to offset the continually falling prices. Farmers took out loans to buy more land to plane more crops to try and make up the difference for the lower prices. Massive overproduction and no market able to absorb it, regardless of tariffs, was the problem.

>>3335147
I did nit know this, thanks for the info.
But do you really believe an overly optimistic market and overproduction will cause a 15 year Depression? Not to mention in 1937, a year when the Depression was particularly bad, which was years after Coolidge's term

>>3334664
Best president, ideal fiscal conservative

>>3334676
Coolidge's presidency is full of funny anecdotes.
Or heartwarming/sad like the one with a boy who came to cheer him up after the death of his son.

Great president and I heard that people who watched that 70s series about the daily life in the White House have a soft spot for him.

>>3336471
And this too

>>3335081
No, but Hoover made the depression great. I think Wilson was at fault for creating the problem.