Coolidge: Rediscovering An American President | SDPB Documentary

[@Gordian1095]

With all due respect, please someone revive Coolidge. We need more people like him.

[@ericb9745]

A do nothing guy, no thanks

[@miketackabery7521]

Someone didn't watch the video 🙄​@@ericb9745

[@katlamb4606]

Be him.

[@epicMicrowavve]

Be like him.

[@JonathonBelmonte]

​​@@ericb9745He actually did way more to protect the rights of native Americans, African Americans and women, than any progressive Democrat during that time.

[@ronaldzent6321]

"Work Hard Stay Humble". Think that could've really summed up how he lived his life overall. He seemed to have a lot of integrity and straight forward honesty. A man of few words( pretty rare for a politician from ANY era) I'd say

[@georgesouthwick7000]

Coolidge was known as “Silent Cal”. One of my favorite quotes attributed to him was, “I have never been hurt by something I didn’t say”.

[@jec1ny]

Easily the most underrated president in US history.

[@masaruedmundnakawatase5165]

And for good reason.

[@DavidMcdonald-df8tb]

Why do you say that?​@@masaruedmundnakawatase5165

[@christiansoldier77]

@@masaruedmundnakawatase5165 He is far better than that traitor FDR

[@ericb9745]

He says while collecting ss

[@christiansoldier77]

@@ericb9745 SS is just a Ponzi scheme that will soon collapse

[@vcab6875]

“Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'Press On!' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.” Calvin Coolidge

[@michaelterry4394]

Excellent response saw this first hand in somone i worked for not the most ta,ented but Persitance and pressing on made him succesful .

[@michaelterry4394]

Something missing today the spoken word plain but to the point no Obfuscation.

[@conservativemovement]

Excellent, thank you.

[@maryannweldin4633]

Thank you for this program. I always. Like him but now he has become my favorite President.

[@vanmcwreath1586]

As a former history teacher, this is a great documentary. I appreciate you showing students how great he was!

[@2serveand2protect]

Vermont must be some Wonder! Look at those hills and forrests! ...it's like a land blessed by God with BEAUTY! All my life I wanted to visit New England ...never happened, though. Who knows?...maybe in another life. PS. Best Regards Americans! Greetings from Poland.

[@Monopolist91]

Wonderful documentary, thank you for this. I really love Amity Shlaes' work. Coolidge is my favorite president.

[@DoubleMrE]

Let me guess…your favorite hobby is watching paint dry. -jk 😊

[@Monopolist91]

@@DoubleMrE haha you're not wrong. I'm interested in investments, and as an old Wall Street adage goes "a portfolio is like a bar of soap. The more you handle it, the smaller it gets". Anyways, I think Coolidge was just what the Framer's had in mind. The smaller the government, the greater the freedom. As far as I know, Coolidge is the only president where government actually shrank under his watch. That alone ought to put him in high regard for any true conservative or libertarian.

[@suzannemcclure7412]

Gee, how is it that each time I see/listen to David, I feel more in touch with myself, calmed, the world is a cozier place afterall. Thank you.

[@USAR8888]

Coolidge has been my favorite president ever since reading Amity Shlaes’s bio on him. Totally underrated president. I still have an original 1919 copy of his book Have Faith In Massachusetts and a fairly rare 1926 Sesquicentennial Coolidge/Washington half dollar, the only coin to have ever featured a still serving president while being minted.

[@wasnhas]

Well done !!

[@markparker1353]

Indeed.......a very fine piece on a President who has usually been underrated!!!! Presidents like Coolidge or James Polk (in the middle and late 1840's) did so much for the Country in only one Presidential Term. Coolidge's stance on Civil Rights were more facts about him that rarely get discussed during some of the reviews I've seen on this guy. I also did not know that he did not approve of his successor, Herbert Hoover. They sure looked "compatible" when they were shown together in this piece. Again.......very well done, and gratitude for posting this!!!!!!

[@douglassauvageau7262]

Born on the Fourth of July, Coolidge was thoroughly infused with the New England ethos of individual enterprise.

[@matthew-jy5jp]

1 of the dumbest things I've ever heard anybody say. You mean they're independent like people from the Hampshire who drive over the border collect their paycheck in Massachusetts ? Could that be what you mean? I'm not sure what planet you people are on

[@masaruedmundnakawatase5165]

I wouldn't blame Coolidge's shortcomings on New England.

[@sidneygray51]

New England was a different civilization back then.

[@DavidMcdonald-df8tb]

@@masaruedmundnakawatase5165 what shortcomings?

[@miketackabery7521]

There's def some trolls in the comments

[@Freeloader_420]

Excellent start to the documentary with the always great Kristi Noem

[@laurarivera5875]

Amazing! Who today is anything like Coolidge? What a MAN!

[@douglassauvageau7262]

Will Rogers delivered a eulogy which would have elicited a smile from 'Silent Cal'.

[@cumberlandhistoriccemetery9568]

Wonderful video and he was a great man. In 2015 my son's and I placed flowers on his grave, what an honor. God bless President Coolidge.

[@ShakespeareCafe]

I got chills when the swearing in was performed by his father, maintaining the continuity of the Republic. He went out a winner. Hoover inherited the Great Depression and had shanty towns named after him, Hoovervilles

[@miketackabery7521]

Excellent video. Thank you.

[@forensicmysteries2080]

What beautiful content 🙏

[@dongorsegner4607]

I appreciate the lessons from history.

[@ericjackson9256]

excellent !

[@ivansanzana8676]

Great American history, well narrated and very informative. Thank you.

[@completesentences2125]

“It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones”. -Calvin Coolidge

[@ronaldlucas5360]

Enjoyed

[@edmundlively8137]

Coolidge was one of the few people who realized that it is low prices that spur the economy, not inflation. Low prices, sell products and services, not inflation

[@WithAllDueRespecto]

Cool. Calvin Coolidge. Undersell. Over deliver.

[@JohnAmidon-c6r]

One of our best.

[@bryanmelton5538]

Silent Cal was great unlike what we've had lately

[@robkunkel8833]

I’m happy that South Dakota has been able to break away from the conventional stereotype of President Coolidge. A high quality video.

[@noneofurbusiness5223]

Wow. Coolidge's mother was absolutely beautiful!

[@johnkeller6063]

My late Grand mothers yes both of them said President Cooledge was a great president.

[@johnkeller6063]

I mean Coolidge. Sorry for misspelling

[@RodgerDodger196]

My sister had Phrases of Calvin Coolidge all over her office, I wanted to know more about this man who I knew little of. I Also have a high respect for finding History Markers & Places marked on our road maps of Historic Sites. Father loved the importance of of History too -we went to many near us; and he Trained me to look for Rocks now Nearly Invisible from overgrowth or even if not, just not noticed by those passing the signs everyday on their way to work. While Searching VT’s Historic Trails from the American Revolution to more recent I saw on the map-CALVIN COOLIDGE HOMESTEAD & spent the Day walking the dirt road & the Beautiful Museum there on the premise in October, pumpkins on the gray steps of a building in this video. That was a few ish years back from now, my own father didn’t want to use a cane, I told him Calvin’s time it was an every man’s item-more common place. Eventually at least on occasion he used one , my grandfather always had, because he would’ve lived through those days. I learned a lot about Calvin’s life seeing the Homestead and would love to return to the lovely grounds with more time. THIS VIDEO WAS VERY GOOD! Learned a lot & I enjoyed the Ariel overviews of The Grounds I walked upon!!👍‼️

[@danielyoung6630]

IT'S ALL IN THE GAME. MANY A TEAR MUST FALL BUT ITS ALL IN THE GAME!

[@douglassauvageau7262]

This presentation presents a rare video of Coolidge gleefully smiling which makes him look rather goofy. A reserved countenance is a much better look on that face. Unlike Theodore Roosevelt, Coolidge has a rather pleasing 'radio-voice' which may have been of benefit in that abandoned second-term.

[@roybrewer7865]

A little heavy on the music - I'm getting dizzy!

[@ShakespeareCafe]

Music ruins most documentaries. I watch these at 2.0x speed to soothe over the oppressive music and overly cloying portrayal. We get it he was a great guy and President

[@lizhall2961]

I appreciate this video. I didn't realize all that Cool ridge did. Oh, if all our politicians were decent and principled as Silent Cal! (Not saying I agree with all his policies).

[@markadams7597]

Brilliant! Thanks for posting. Coolidge is among the three greatest US Presidents of the 20th Century; Eisenhower and Reagan being the other two.

[@rogerphillips2063]

A simple man. A great American.

[@masaruedmundnakawatase5165]

Simple, for sure. But great? Please.

[@miketackabery7521]

​@@masaruedmundnakawatase5165what's your problem here? You keep going through the comments trashing this guy. What's your 100 year old beef?

[@masaruedmundnakawatase5165]

Fair enough. In my youth, I was a Young Republican (I am now 80) and have some familiarity accordingly with the conservative classics but even in those formative years I thought Coolidge's politics seemed backward. As with many conservatives, Coolidge's political vision seemed to be government by bookkeepers whose highest goals seemed to be balanced budgets. But such a political vision was, to be kind, obtuse about what was happening to the country then economically: a faltering agricultural sector; an increasingly immiserated working class; a business class that thought it could rule forever with minimal (or no) regulation and weak unions. The Great Depression and the right wing responses to that catastrophe exposed the inadequacies of the conservative world view as far as I'm concerned. The American right still continues in its battle against the New Deal; they're still sore about their loss. Calvin Coolidge is no demonic figure in American history. He's just a symbol to me of do-nothing (or do little) government, animated by the notion among the right wing that the government is somehow an evil force. I make no brief for the government as an absolute positive force. It won't eliminate sin but it can provide resources for health, education, housing, and in general make lives better for our fellow citizens. No doubt Calvin Coolidge had virtues that I didn't know about. I have been taken aback about this effort to lift his memory. But I say go for it, continue to make the case for him @@miketackabery7521 n

[@RD-zj6vc]

That huge hat is killin'.

[@DavidMcdonald-df8tb]

Coolidge understand what works and what doesn't. We need to heed that.

[@juderickman8275]

Well done.

[@danielyoung6630]

and with a VP who wrote a hit single song!

[@JohnAsmith-rw6uo]

Number one song of 1957 l believe. It's All In The Game

[@kellicoffman8440]

Love this documentary showing what a leader of integrity and hard work can do. But as a knitter grace knitting 🧶 was my favorite part

[@masaruedmundnakawatase5165]

When I first read Amity Shlaes's tributes to Calvin Coolidge some years ago, I thought that it was a MAD parody. My initial reaction was: Who knew that the Wall Street Journal had a sense of humor? I was expecting that "The Political Philosophy of Millard Fillmore" and "The Immortal Ideas of President James Buchanan" would soon follow complete with blurbs from the Heritage Foundation and reading lists from Hillsdale College. But I was shocked to learn that you were serious. While my enthusiasm for Silent Cal is very much under control, I do have a weakness for quixotic projects and any attempted rehabilitation of Coolidge's reputation is certainly such an enterprise. So continue your pursuit of sand in the desert and salt water in the ocean. I shall grab some popcorn and take a peek at the documentary in the mean time.

[@CONFUCIUS-f2x]

He knew about the "Great Depression " Best decision he made.

[@raptorfromthe6ix833]

Had he run for another term he would prevented the Great Depression

[@williamearl7837]

Proverbs 17:27 He that hath knowledge spareth his words: and a man of understanding is of an excellent spirit. 28 Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise: and he that shutteth his lips is esteemed a man of understanding. Luke 17:20 And when he was demanded of the Pharisees, when the kingdom of God should come, he answered them and said, The kingdom of God cometh not with observation: 21 Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you.

[@syedadeelhussain2691]

Is this the same president who said to keep a big smile but carry a big stick? Was that Theodore?

[@shawnaweesner3759]

Teddy Roosevelt said, “walk softly, but carry a big stick.”

[@CountessKitten]

Teddy Roosevelt, different guy. Lol

[@aqilkarhout9494]

Hi Zach what are doing for tonight

[@gmicg]

It is said that President Coolidge saw the inevitable financial crash of 1929 coming and this is one of the reasons of his irrevocable decision not to run in 1928 and to let someone else become President. He had no desire to cope with this dire situation himself. So he retired in 1929. He was a very smart person.

[@belmontguy]

Good documentary. Only comment: is where is The First World Flight? The 1924 epic race around the world that the USA won!

[@stephenholmes1036]

If only you had him now

[@Kaz.Klay.]

Fitting to have followed teddy so closely

[@howardleekilby7390]

❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ My Favorite President ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@rickvillarreal3972]

People with servant hearts are always remembered. They leave an honorable legacy. Selfish people leave a stain on the family name. Jesus said, in order to be great, you must serve many.

[@know-body2519]

Who is this fella?

[@DavidMcdonald-df8tb]

A great president

[@know-body2519]

@@DavidMcdonald-df8tb I was referring to the (transformer) SD governor...

[@DavidMcdonald-df8tb]

@@know-body2519 why do you call her a transformer?

[@know-body2519]

​@DavidMcdonald-df8tb For the same reason that Vladimir Putin called Michelle Obama a "transformer" in an interview with British journalists. And before you question my opinion, please keep in mind that Miss Universe has been been a "trans-former", as well as Taylor Swift, Sandra Bullock, Dolly Parton, Jada Picket Smith, Marjorie Taylor Green etc, etc, etc. I could go on ad infinitum.

[@sandyjohnson5111]

Is she really necessary to intro this documentary?

[@miketackabery7521]

Wow. Haters gotta hate

[@sstewart03]

Yes

[@CONFUCIUS-f2x]

Well ,who would you put on , Kamala Harris?.

[@georgecorrea8491]

Calvin Coolidge was a cool president. Not surprising he has the word cool in Coolidge 😂.

[@CharlieRando]

Where's our Coolidge?

[@jec1ny]

In Argentina. Javier Milei.

[@stanislausklim7794]

Is that a slight accent I hear on Kristi Noem?

[@CBBC435]

Wow.

[@Netzari]

Greatest Presidents of the 20th century 1 Theodore Roosevelt 2 Calvin Coolidge 3 Franklin Roosevelt 4 Dwight D. Eisenhower 5 John F. Kennedy 6 Ronald Reagan

[@davissae]

Kind of like Trump: quiet, humble, respectful

[@kevvieb7829]

the Governor of SD for president

[@billyhack9673]

Wasn’t he also responsible for getting finance for the Boulder Canyon dam on the Nevada-Arizona border?

[@billyhack9673]

That’s a biggie!

[@ncprealty3844]

His mother was very beautiful.

[@pamelaryan4576]

I think he was one of the greatest Presidents ever! Right up there with George Washington and Ronald Reagan.

[@noneofurbusiness5223]

I had to look up why Coolidge didn't like Hoover

[@peterponcedeleon3368]

A great president. He cut spending in a recession and gave birth a book during the 1920’s.

[@arthurhartwick7974]

Couldn't make it all the way through. The music was too much.

[@newyardleysinclair9960]

Steve Forbes talks like hes about to cut to commercial any second

[@polynesia8733]

He wore the most emaculate suits..gorgeous @3:30 & 4:02

[@paulnicholson1906]

Best decision he made was not to run in 1928.

[@1signalstrength]

This is revisionist history. The documentary portrayed Coolidge as a supporter of civil rights in spite of the unbelievably racist Immigration Act of 1924. I can't think of a more shameful civil rights legacy than a law that excluded all Japanese from immigrating to the US. Even worse was Coolidge's record on appointing African-Americans to important federal positions: He appointed NONE. The most egregious revisionism came at the end of the documentary. There is no mention whatsoever of the Great Depression that began barely 6 months after Coolidge left office. People in the 1930s would not have glossed over how Coolidge ignored the reckless speculation and buying stocks on the margin that led to the crash of 1929.

[@DavidMcdonald-df8tb]

Many people like you think that only Black lives matter. Americannegoes had it better before the socialist rights act of 1964.

[@miketackabery7521]

This comment is revisionist. I'll only address the last silly point because the others were covered in the video. Coolidge didn't cause the great depression. And he certainly couldn't have done anything to stop it before it happened. There's such a thing as a business cycle and there's no escaping it. Even communist countries couldn't escape it (though it occurred differently for them, it still occurred). The Fed caused the economy's collapse, not the Wall Street crash: even David Stockman admitted so. It's extremely well documented.

[@shawnaweesner3759]

A terrible President because he didn’t appoint any black people to important federal positions. 🙄

[@shawnaweesner3759]

Why is discrimination always worse when applied to black people. That type of thinking is actually racist.

[@kenlodge3399]

Wait a gall darn minute here! Whoa, back it up, a "blister... on his toe!?" I'm sorry. but this is a bit too much. When a kid you must've, I mean I know I had a couple on my hands and feet every summer. Sure in winter we all had rope climb or played, tug-of-war in gym class, practically everyone had blisters after that and nobody administered any first-aid. Blisters came and went! Now I can go along with blood poisoning or infection if he first dipped the needle in feces before he tried to drain the blister, then it makes some kind of sense. Most assuredly we all got at least one blood blister a summer. You'd feel a sting, take off your sock and see a blister. Then either pop it on the spot or just put your sock back on. Later at night remove it, see maybe some dried blood and that was it. At least 30-40 times while a kid. Plus multiple cuts and scrapes from falls, knife blades, screw drivers, saws, running thru bushes, jabs and pokes from tree branches, you name it they all usually drawing some blood. Either there's something they're not telling us or they're making the whole thing up, hands down!. And I'm leaving out the serious falls like out of trees or off dirt bikes and/or bicycles. Hmm? He must've been a rather fragile child is all I can say. Damn shame.

[@CountessKitten]

You don't know nothing John Snow!! It could and absolutely did happen because of a blister on his toe. You clearly do not understand science? 🤣 Kidding, a little bit.

[@USMC-cv5sd]

GovernNoem supports Trump and may be his vice president.....Trump is the exact opposite of Calvin Coolidge.

[@brianhill5009]

Coolidge was fortunate not to have any national or international crisis while he was president. With his philosophy of limited government, he would have been at a loss of what to do, as Herbert Hoover was instead.

[@jec1ny]

Hoover's problem was not that he left things alone. His problem was he believed that he and the government could manage the economy. He was an activist president and his economic policies arguably turned what would have been a nasty recession into a full blown depression. Only to have FDR follow suit and put the "Great" into the Depression with his crazy efforts to regulate the economy back to health and raising taxes. FDR never got the country out of the depression. In the summer of 1940 when running for his third term unemployment was hovering around 20%. It was the war that saved FDR from the harsh judgement of history.

[@DavidMcdonald-df8tb]

You are pretending you know what Coolidge was thinking.

[@brianhill5009]

@@jec1ny If FDR had not done what he did in his first term, the country could have very well veered into fascism. He gave the nation hope where there was none under Hoover.

[@jec1ny]

@@brianhill5009 The threat of political extremism in US politics in the early 30s was not from the right, it was from the left. These were the glory days of the Communist Party and their fellow travelers. All of which aside, nothing you wrote alters the fact that FDR's economic policies broadly speaking were a failure that prolonged the depression.

[@miketackabery7521]

​@@jec1nyHoover did little to harm or help the economic situation. Roosevelt seemed like he helped and that was enough for the voters, but he didn't help either. The Great Depression wasn't going to go away quickly like others did because it began so differently than others. Even David Stockman admitted that the Federal Reserve caused it by allowing the banks to collapse.

[@nicolascocolios]

He chose to leave when he was at his peak

[@Madstsone]

Our best president

[@newyardleysinclair9960]

I have a deaf calico cat i call Silent Cal

[@TeriDillon-x7h]

This was very informative. I didn't appreciate though, that MAGA Noem introduced it.

[@Freeloader_420]

The tolerant left strikes again

[@memyself4616]

MAGA Noem?

[@maryannweldin4633]

Grow up

[@miketackabery7521]

​@@memyself4616gotta learn to accept the message regardless the messenger.

[@sstewart03]

Very sad comment

[@leostrabismus8734]

He was a disaster. And he was man enough to admit it publicly.

[@moistnuggetjr.3198]

Good Goddamn! that Intro has not aged well. She should have took a page from good old 'Silent Cal' and never wrote that book.

[@allend2749]

u do not look like a governor but on this site i cannot say what u

[@gretchengraef3012]

Yuch. Kristi Noem. Mount Rushmore would be better in its natural state.

[@shawnaweesner3759]

I agree with you about Mount Rushmore being better in its natural state.

[@StephanieZielin]

I loved you until you wrote in your own book how you killed a dog

[@joeyfourpaws5594]

Ughhh Noem... Insurrectionist supporter.

[@shawnaweesner3759]

There was no insurrection. You’ve been listening to the communist Left.

[@JiminPalmSprings]

I was going to enjoy watching this historical piece on Calvin Coolidge but as soon as I see a bimbo standing in front of Mount Rushmore that ended that

[@wchristian2000]

LOL

[@harryb7149]

Amen to that!

[@Freeloader_420]

She would definitely punch your lights out, cuck. Chug more soy.

[@HavenEven]

Close call, you almost learned something

[@miketackabery7521]

Haters gotta hate

[@DgurlSunshine]

EVIL INC 1312

[@alpha-omega2362]

who? I guess I better watch this to find out....lol

[@cliftonbowers6376]

Trump iz flashy

[@barbarabrooks4747]

Despite his strengths, Coolidge failed to put regulatory apparatus to strengthen banks and calm speculation or to stop the militarization of Germany and spread of communism. Failure to deal with these crises led to depression, world war and the Cold War. Unfortunately, with global capitalism and improved travel, the limited vision of Coolidge had glaring inadequacies that led to the worst problems of the twentieth century.

[@Walkingman.45]

LOL …just no.

[@billgunn1178]

H😊😊

[@kateramunni]

Kristi Noem 🤮🤮😭🐶

[@TomCook-jw6ur]

We need someone who will follow President Coolidge's path

[@matthew-jy5jp]

She was probably the worst person you could have started documentary about presidents. Add I'm a mazed by all the people in South Dakota who are completely clueless about their own history

[@JohnAsmith-rw6uo]

Talk of clueless.