Silent Cal: An American President

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President, Coolidge demonstrated his determination to preserve the old
moral and economic precepts amid the material prosperity which many
Americans were enjoying. He refused to use Federal economic power to check
the growing boom or to ameliorate the depressed condition of agriculture
and certain industries. His first message to Congress in December 1923
called for isolation in foreign policy, and for tax cuts, economy, and
limited aid to farmers.

He rapidly became popular. In 1924, as the beneficiary of what was becoming
known as "Coolidge prosperity," he polled more than 54 percent of the
popular vote.

In his Inaugural he asserted that the country had achieved "a state of
contentment seldom before seen," and pledged himself to maintain the status
quo. In subsequent years he twice vetoed farm relief bills, and killed a
plan to produce cheap Federal electric power on the Tennessee River.

The political genius of President Coolidge, Walter Lippmann pointed out in
1926, was his ...

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