A Look Back on the Coolidge Presidency Calvin Coolidge became the 30th President of the United States of America after the abrupt death of Warren G. Harding. Many historians look at the Coolidge presidency as one that had no initiative. “He is often dismissed as a political naïf, simpleton, and lazy misfit, a relic from the nineteenth century, whose administration set the stage for the Great Depression” (Sobel 3). Despite of what historians think, Coolidge …showed first 75 words of 1701 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1701 total…his Republican Congress gave him, then he would veto it. He had nothing to prove to anyone. He is a very old-school president that would probably be eaten alive by modern politics, but his persistence would have at least led to an attempt. Even though modern politics would not suit him, he was the perfect man to take the job at a critical point in American history. And I feel he excelled at his job.