Coolidge was a pragmatist. He didn't start out with a tax theory. But he observed over time that lower tax rates sometimes brought in extra revenue. The success of his and Treasury Secretary Andrew Mellon's experiment with rate cuts has been obscured by our modern history books.

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

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

In a way, Calvin Coolidge is better than Reagan. His tax rates were lower, and he cut budgets.

We're in a kind of vicious cycle where the media tell the politicians, and the politicians tell the people, that perception is reality, and the perception of saving dooms a politician. I don't believe perception is reality, or that all Americans think that.

Everybody should pay some tax, just as everybody should vote.

Coolidge's stat was so low; he's ranked in the bottom half of presidents. What I found when I encountered this man was the leader I might like to see today.