https://hotair.com/headlines/archives/2013/02/14/calvin-coolidge-commander-in-brief/feed/HotAir is the leading conservative blog for breaking news and commentary covering the Biden administration, politics, media, culture, and current elections.en-usTue, 09 Jun 2026 12:18:38 -0400<![CDATA[Were Barack Obama, America’s most loquacious president (699 first-term teleprompter speeches), capable of learning from someone with whom he disagrees, he would profit from Amity Shlaes’s new biography of Coolidge, whom she calls “our great refrainer” with an “aptitude for brevity,” as when he said, “Inflation is repudiation.” She says that under his “minimalist” presidency, he “made a virtue of inaction.” As he said, “It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.” During the 67 months of his presidency, the national debt, the national government, the federal budget, unemployment (3.6 percent) and even consumer prices shrank. The GDP expanded 13.4 percent. &#8230;]]>Thu, 14 Feb 2013 19:00:21 -0500<![CDATA[Erika Johnsen]]>https://hotair.com/headlines/2013/02/14/calvin-coolidge-commander-in-brief-n100134