• tal@lemmy.today
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    7 months ago

    Yeah, I’m more-than-tired of having an ongoing circus.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calvin_Coolidge

    During his presidency, he restored public confidence in the White House after the many scandals of the Harding administration.

    As president, Coolidge’s reputation as a quiet man continued. “The words of a President have an enormous weight,” he would later write, “and ought not to be used indiscriminately.” Coolidge was aware of his stiff reputation; indeed, he cultivated it. “I think the American people want a solemn ass as a President,” he once told Ethel Barrymore, “and I think I will go along with them.” Some historians suggest that Coolidge’s image was created deliberately as a campaign tactic, while others believe his withdrawn and quiet behavior to be natural, deepening after the death of his son in 1924. Dorothy Parker, upon learning that Coolidge had died, reportedly remarked, “How can they tell?”

    I’d kind of like things to look a bit more like that for a while.