Calvin Coolidge was sworn in to his second term as the 30th president exactly 100 years ago. It turns out "Silent Cal" had a lot to say -- about the virtues of saying little. John Dickerson and ...

Adelbert College students backed Progressive Party candidate Robert LaFollette with 196 votes to Republican Calvin Coolidge’s 129 and Democrat John W. Davis’ 35. A poll of 30 faculty had Coolidge the ...

His name was Calvin Coolidge. In many ways Coolidge didn’t seem like a man who would one day become president. He gained the nickname “Silent Cal” because of his personality. His man-of-few-words ...

"Silent Cal" did not feel it was his place to pressure ... programs regardless of their purpose. Calvin Coolidge was not a forceful leader in matters of foreign affairs and often deferred to ...

It’s hard to imagine anyone more countercultural, less in sync with today’s zeitgeist, than Silent Cal. He concludes ... Meanwhile, decent men, such as Calvin Coolidge and Mitch Daniels ...