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{{quote|"Coolidge made [[The Roaring Twenties]] roar."|'''[[Jonathan Coulton]],''' "The Presidents."}}▼
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Sworn in by his father, a Justice of the Peace, late at night, on the Coolidge family bible, after hearing of Harding's death, '''John Calvin Coolidge, Jr.''' (1872 – 1933) may have represented the real return to normalcy; one of his slogans was "Keep Cool With Coolidge." He was popular in his day, but due to his lack of charisma he's not remembered much now. Most people remember [[Prohibition]] and the rest of [[The Roaring Twenties]] instead. If they ''do'' remember him, it is for his [[The Quiet One|legendarily taciturn temperament]], which earned him the nickname "Silent Cal". Like most old-fashioned New Englanders, he never used twenty words when one would do the trick, and never used ten words when a simple nod would suffice. This also translated to his philosophy of governance, which was to do as little as necessary, on the grounds that 90% of impending problems would solve themselves before they ever became serious (a philosophy that made him, reportedly, the favorite modern President of [[Ronald Reagan]]). Partially as a result of this hands-off philosophy, he has been described as being, historically, more relevant as a source of amusing anecdotes than as a president.
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His son, Calvin Coolidge Jr., died of septicemia after a blister on his foot became infected. He had been playing tennis in the White House gardens while wearing new shoes without socks. This actually probably had a lot to do with his inaction during the presidency, as Coolidge, like [[Franklin Pierce|two]] [[Theodore Roosevelt|presidents]] before him, was never quite the same after his son's death.
Coolidge has the distinction of not only being an "accidental" President, but an accidental Vice President before that: His name was a last-minute suggestion by a delegate who liked his book. He is the only American President whose birthday is July 4th. He also held and acknowledged Native American ancestry from his great-grandmother.
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== Calvin Coolidge in fiction ==▼
* [[Vague Age|Mr. Burns]] of ''[[The Simpsons]]'' mentions having had a friendship with Coolidge.▼
* ''[[Crimson Skies]]''. Coolidge is President of Columbia, the bastion of the [[Divided States of America|former federal government]].▼
* Appears in one episode of ''[[Histeria!]]'', with the famous "you lose" incident (casting Pepper Mills as Dorothy).▼
* The school in ''Up The Down Staircase'' is named after Coolidge.▼
* ''[[Singin' in the Rain|Singin in The Rain]]'': "I've got more money than Calvin Coolidge! ''[[The Ditz|Put together!]]''"▼
* He found a clue leading to a treasure in ''[[National Treasure]]: Book Of Secrets''. He had it photographed and destroyed.▼
* Coolidge himself is from both the wrong century and the wrong country to appear in ''[[Lost in Austen]]'', but the "you lose" incident makes it in, transferred to Mr. Darcy.▼
* In ''[[Ozy and Millie]]'', when Llewellyn is on the campaign trail, he says something about how the reporters "must have found the photographs of [[Noodle Incident|me and Mrs. Calvin Coolidge with all the whipped cream]]."▼
* A novel, ''Seeing Calvin Coolidge in a Dream,'' features a Chinese protagonist who sees Coolidge as the ideal Confucian leader. ▼
* In [[Harry Turtledove]]'s [[Timeline-191]], he gets elected President of the USA in a landslide as a Democrat, unseating the incumbent Socialist Hosea Blackford as the Depression hit during his term. However, he dies before he can be inaugurated, with the presidency passing to his Vice-President, [[Herbert Hoover]].▼
* [[Alliterative Name]]
* [[Beyond the Impossible]]: He won the election for his second term without campaigning, he let his Vice-President handle that. Let us repeat that, he won the election without appearing on the campaign trail ''once'', which makes him the greatest politician in American history by default.
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Calvin Coolidge (1928): "Well, they’re going to elect that Superman Hoover, and he’s going to have some trouble. He’s going to have to spend money, but it won’t be enough. Then the Democrats will come in. But they don’t know anything about money."
Henry Morgenthau (1939): "We have tried spending money. We are spending more than we have ever spent before and it does not work. [...] I say after eight years of this Administration we have just as much unemployment as when we started. … And an enormous debt to boot"}}
* [[The Quiet One]]: He was pretty much the personification of the [[Laconic]]. There is a whole host of stories and jokes about how taciturn he was; the most famous is the one listed among the quotes. Among others were the following:
** While Vice-President, on being asked his opinion of the many fancy formal state dinners he was forced to attend.
{{quote|"Gotta eat somewhere."}}
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* [[Shrinking Violet]]: [[Hidden Depths|The real reason]] for his taciturnity.
{{quote|''President Calvin Coolidge confessed that he was so shy it was an ordeal to fulfill his duties to people. He recalled that as a small boy he could be in a panic when he heard strangers in the kitchen of his home and knew that he must go into the kitchen and meet them. [[The Woobie|“I am all proper with pals,” Coolidge said, “however each time I meet a stranger I’ve got to undergo the previous kitchen door again home, and it is not easy.”]]}}
== [[Film]] ==
▲* ''[[Singin' in the
▲* He found a clue leading to a treasure in ''[[National Treasure
== [[Literature]] ==
▲* A novel, ''[[Seeing Calvin Coolidge in a Dream]],'' features a Chinese protagonist who sees Coolidge as the ideal Confucian leader.
▲* In [[Harry Turtledove]]'s [[Timeline-191]], he gets elected President of the USA in a landslide as a Democrat, unseating the incumbent Socialist Hosea Blackford as the Depression hit during his term. However, he dies before he can be inaugurated, with the presidency passing to his Vice-President, [[Herbert Hoover]].
== [[Live-Action TV]] ==
▲* Coolidge himself is from both the wrong century and the wrong country to appear in ''[[Lost in Austen]]'', but the "you lose" incident makes it in, transferred to Mr. Darcy.
== [[Video Games]] ==
▲* ''[[Crimson Skies]]''. Coolidge is President of Columbia, the bastion of the [[Divided States of America|former federal government]].
== [[Web Comics]] ==
▲* In ''[[Ozy and Millie]]'', when Llewellyn is on the campaign trail, he says something about how the reporters "must have found the photographs of [[Noodle Incident|me and Mrs. Calvin Coolidge with all the whipped cream]]."
== [[Western Animation]] ==
▲* [[Vague Age|Mr. Burns]] of ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'' mentions having had a friendship with Coolidge.
▲* Appears in one episode of ''[[Histeria!]]'', with the famous "you lose" incident (casting Pepper Mills as Dorothy).
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