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Tuesday, October 19, 2010

Coolidge in His Own Words

Amity Schlaes makes the case for Calvin Coolidge as the greatest President of the past century.

Coolidge makes the straightforward case of reducing the size of government, which he thought was way too big - $7.5 billion at the time - or only 2% of the size of Obama's government. (And now, inflation has not been 50,000% since then).