Today we care about budgets more than anything. Our American future hangs on the ability of government to cut budget.

Anyone who experienced World War I close-hand was grossed out by it forever. It just was so awful.

The lucky biographers find themselves drawn into a sort of friendship with their subject.

The difference between recession and depression is simple. Recession, goes the saying, is when you lose your job; depression is when I lose mine.

Coolidge was a federalist. You go back and read him and it's almost intimidating to write about him because he writes better himself than anyone. He's one of the best writers as presidents go.

Coolidge and his treasury secretary Mellon loved new technology. Like JFK, C.C. divined that a new technology could lift the nation out of its doldrums; the only difference was that JFK's new technology was space travel, and Coolidge's travel by airplane.

The 1920s are the decade that signaled the arrival of a gift that still means a lot to us: Saturday.