Badass Birthday
On this date, in 1872, 154 years ago, in Vermont, Calvin Coolidge was born.
Coolidge was president from 1923 to 1929. He oversaw the economic boom built like a house of cards that led to the Great Depression. He was a notoriously tactiturn man. When a visitor said she bet a friend she could get him to say more than three words in the evening to her, he replied, "You lose." and didn't speak to her again that night. He had a very 'hands off' approach to governemnt, unless it came to unions, when, as governor of Massachusetts, he broke a police strike. He was famous for napping in the afternoon. He said little and did little. Not anything too noteworthy. His wife Grace however was vivacious and outgoing and a trendsetter of fashion.
So why is he here you ask? Well, he's the only US President to be born on the 4th of July! That's a badass birthday to have for the job he had. Kinda like Santa's birthday being Dec 25th.
POLT
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