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Let’s spare a few words for ‘Silent Cal’ Coolidge on July 4, his 150th birthday

President Calvin Coolidge stands with members of a nonprofit group called the Daughters of 1812.
Library of Congress/Corbis/VCG via Getty Images

Chris Lamb, IUPUI

A woman sitting next to President Calvin Coolidge at a dinner party once told him she had made a bet that she could get him to say more than two words.

You lose,” replied Coolidge, who served as president from 1923 until 1929.

During a White House recital, a nervous opera singer foundered through a performance before Coolidge. Someone asked him what he thought of the singer’s execution. “I’m all for it,” he said. Continue reading

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