I read a fair number of news sources throughout a normal week (probably over 1,000 news items). Occasionally, you will pick up one item which demands a bit of pondering.
Roughly a month ago....the archbishop of Guadalajara (a state in Mexico) did up an exorcism of sorts. Cardinal Iniguez got with some other Catholic priests.....huddled quietly in a room.....and tried to drive out demons from across all of Mexico.
No one is saying much over the success and there's some thought that it was way too big of a problem for just a couple of priests (you'd probably need two-hundred priests for the Mexico problem).
So, this brings around this solution to applying for problems in the US. Could we work up some massive 10,000 priest operation and do a big-time exorcism in the US?
Naturally, some folks in Alabama would ask questions. Would this mess around with legit sin (gambling in casino operations, drinking two-percent beer on Saturday night, conducting relations with the Dairy Queen lady or the Piggly Wiggly clerk)?
Then they'd ask if this was mumbo-jumbo and just fake?
Somewhere down the line.....they'd eventually ask if this were permanent or just a short-term solution.
Finally, some guy would ask if Satan was really responsible or were people just blaming their stupidity and lax morals on some fake thing.....thus not taking responsibility over themselves?
For some reason, I'm not buying into the Mexico exorcism episode. Nor do I think most Mexicans believe the story beyond just a gimmick of the Catholic Church to fake people out.
Saturday, 11 July 2015
Friday, 10 July 2015
The Old School
They are finally selling off (by auction) my old school (well, the one from the first grade to the ninth grade). The auction company put up a couple of pictures and it'll be held in roughly three weeks.
The deal will compose a fairly new gym (at least 15 years old), a red-brick school building with five big rooms and a basketball court, a newer school area which has six rooms, a cafeteria, a library, a baseball park, and maybe a total of 40 acres.
My guess is that it'll go up to a separate sell on each, and then some last minute episode to sell the whole thing together.
The only things worth buying?
Well, here the problems and issues. The old brick building looks nice but it's a renovation queen and would take at least $50,000 in repairs....plus heating the thing would be costly. The cafeteria might be worth something but it's in the far back of the school.
So you are left with the gym and a couple of acres around it.....which might make it worth $60,000 in my humble opinion. It'd make a fine store-front.
As for the ballpark? Well.....what exactly would you do with the six-odd acres?
All combined in the final sale? I can't see anyone bidding more than $100,000 for the whole property. Someone might buy the building for an antique shop and multipurpose situation for the rest. Beyond that.....I just don't see it being a hot property.
The red-brick building goes back to the mid-1930 period and probably has a lot of history tied into it. But what does that translate to in 2015? Will someone get real stupid and buy it for sentimental reasons and discover the reality of an old structure two weeks later?
My humble bet is that three-hundred people show up to just watch the event unfold. A couple of guys will bid onto the gym. Maybe two or three guys will bid on the ballpark. And maybe some old retired guy will put a pretty low bid up for the remainder.
The building was used for roughly seventy-five-odd years and did well.....with over 10,000 kids who transited the facility and moved on in life.
The deal will compose a fairly new gym (at least 15 years old), a red-brick school building with five big rooms and a basketball court, a newer school area which has six rooms, a cafeteria, a library, a baseball park, and maybe a total of 40 acres.
My guess is that it'll go up to a separate sell on each, and then some last minute episode to sell the whole thing together.
The only things worth buying?
Well, here the problems and issues. The old brick building looks nice but it's a renovation queen and would take at least $50,000 in repairs....plus heating the thing would be costly. The cafeteria might be worth something but it's in the far back of the school.
So you are left with the gym and a couple of acres around it.....which might make it worth $60,000 in my humble opinion. It'd make a fine store-front.
As for the ballpark? Well.....what exactly would you do with the six-odd acres?
All combined in the final sale? I can't see anyone bidding more than $100,000 for the whole property. Someone might buy the building for an antique shop and multipurpose situation for the rest. Beyond that.....I just don't see it being a hot property.
The red-brick building goes back to the mid-1930 period and probably has a lot of history tied into it. But what does that translate to in 2015? Will someone get real stupid and buy it for sentimental reasons and discover the reality of an old structure two weeks later?
My humble bet is that three-hundred people show up to just watch the event unfold. A couple of guys will bid onto the gym. Maybe two or three guys will bid on the ballpark. And maybe some old retired guy will put a pretty low bid up for the remainder.
The building was used for roughly seventy-five-odd years and did well.....with over 10,000 kids who transited the facility and moved on in life.
Friday, 3 July 2015
The Flag Discussion
I've tried to make sense out of the dumping of 'Dukes of Hazard' over the Confederate flag episode. To be honest, I've probably watched a total of three episodes over my whole life (145 total episodes made). Script-wise.....there was no script and there didn't seem to be any real problems worth making an hour-long (43 minutes) episode out of.
My solution to this? Make a big green digital circle, and put it over the afflicted flag when it comes over the screen.
You need to do this....because there will be other shows that you have to do something about....eventually.
For examples:
Baywatch. There's all this tight bikini action and boobs hanging out. You can run the show, but there needs to be a big green digital circle over the boobs.....in my humble opinion.
Ironside (2013 version). I'd put a big green circle over the whole screen and just run ACDC music in the background.....it's that bad.
The Tudors. Way too much boobs.....put the green digital cover over most women.
Rome. Sex scenes about every sixteen minutes.
Mr. Ed. You really can't allow kids watch the horse talking. It's not real and it begs for some scientific angle.....like fake global cooling or fake horse conversation.
Game of Thrones. Well....there's a bunch of killing and a bunch of sex. Green dots ought to be popped up every 90 seconds for some reason.
I realize there's some Confederate flag showing up around sixteen times in an average show. Will you cross off the flag in school history books or such? Where exactly do you go with the symbology business?
My solution to this? Make a big green digital circle, and put it over the afflicted flag when it comes over the screen.
You need to do this....because there will be other shows that you have to do something about....eventually.
For examples:
Baywatch. There's all this tight bikini action and boobs hanging out. You can run the show, but there needs to be a big green digital circle over the boobs.....in my humble opinion.
Ironside (2013 version). I'd put a big green circle over the whole screen and just run ACDC music in the background.....it's that bad.
The Tudors. Way too much boobs.....put the green digital cover over most women.
Rome. Sex scenes about every sixteen minutes.
Mr. Ed. You really can't allow kids watch the horse talking. It's not real and it begs for some scientific angle.....like fake global cooling or fake horse conversation.
Game of Thrones. Well....there's a bunch of killing and a bunch of sex. Green dots ought to be popped up every 90 seconds for some reason.
I realize there's some Confederate flag showing up around sixteen times in an average show. Will you cross off the flag in school history books or such? Where exactly do you go with the symbology business?
Wednesday, 1 July 2015
A Twenty-Year Change
I'm presently in the middle of a six-book series covering the period of 1914 to 1929. Since high school and college history books do a lousy job of the period....I've come to find a number of interesting bits of knowledge which kinda amaze me.
From 1900 to 1921, there's an increase of cigarette consumption and sales.....of sixteen times what it was in 1900 (1921). We aren't talking double or triple here, but a huge number of smokes that rippled across society in general.
What happened? Well....there are a number of reasons.
The war came, and I suspect that a number of people who didn't smoke.....participated in the war....got things on their mind....and ended up smoking as a point of relaxation.
Trucks arriving and transporting more cargo? Yes. In 1900.....you still had mostly wagons and rail as your method of delivery. In 1921, you had the ability to send over an order and have it delivered within a reasonable amount of time.
More women smoking? Yes, that's one of the odd things from the voting period changes. Women felt they had just as many rights and privileges as a guy.
More advertising? Yes.....marketing folks got smart and knew how to better present a product.
All of this meant more tax revenue and profit for grocery/store operations.
Another odd factor which I came across is the amount of material required for a dress. By 1921.....it took only seven yards of fabic to make a dress......compared to almost twenty yards back in 1900. Again, it represents a fashion change in women's clothing that few people talk about....even today.
It would be curious to see the amount of yards used in each decade, and how it lessened as time went by, and how the cost of fabric changed as well.
From 1900 to 1921, there's an increase of cigarette consumption and sales.....of sixteen times what it was in 1900 (1921). We aren't talking double or triple here, but a huge number of smokes that rippled across society in general.
What happened? Well....there are a number of reasons.
The war came, and I suspect that a number of people who didn't smoke.....participated in the war....got things on their mind....and ended up smoking as a point of relaxation.
Trucks arriving and transporting more cargo? Yes. In 1900.....you still had mostly wagons and rail as your method of delivery. In 1921, you had the ability to send over an order and have it delivered within a reasonable amount of time.
More women smoking? Yes, that's one of the odd things from the voting period changes. Women felt they had just as many rights and privileges as a guy.
More advertising? Yes.....marketing folks got smart and knew how to better present a product.
All of this meant more tax revenue and profit for grocery/store operations.
Another odd factor which I came across is the amount of material required for a dress. By 1921.....it took only seven yards of fabic to make a dress......compared to almost twenty yards back in 1900. Again, it represents a fashion change in women's clothing that few people talk about....even today.
It would be curious to see the amount of yards used in each decade, and how it lessened as time went by, and how the cost of fabric changed as well.
Tuesday, 30 June 2015
The Lack of Trust
By age nineteen, I had almost complete trust in various professions and categories of people. Somewhere along the second year of the Air Force.....I put health professionals (nurses, administrators and doctors) along with AF First Sergeants into this category of zero-trust.
In blunt language, I became an absolute skeptic of either group of people. Whatever they suggested or said.....you had to ask more questions over and have a good bit of doubt over what they were doing.
As the years rolled by....I added other professions onto the list. Safety inspectors, car mechanics, bank clerks, lawyers, insurance agents, and college professors.
Somewhere in the early 1990s.....I added all cops (local, state, federal, FBI, etc). It wasn't very difficult. I came to a point where I realized half of these guys were either unqualified for their job, bothered by mental problems, or just plain stupid. Sadly, half of these guys are trying hard to do their job, and their buddies are screwing the profession over left and right.
By 9-11, I came to be skeptical of Senators, Congressmen and Presidents.
After 9-11....came TSA agents. Maybe half of these guys are qualified for their job and doing a four-star job. The problem is that every time you cross over into some airport....you come up against some joker who ought to be a security guard at some 7-11 operation or a mall in southern Mississippi. One single idiot out of a group of six that you might encounter today at some airport.....who ought to be doing something else other security.
Journalists? I added them around 2010 to the list of folks who you just can't trust. Foundation guys, think-tank experts, and TV news media guys......all fall into this same group. They tell you something, then you realize they skipped some topic or element of the story....intentionally. You'd like for them to back-up and tell this.....but they won't dare explain this because it's not part of their slanted view of the news.
Religious ministers? Well, yeah.....I've put them on the list as well. When they show up in a BMW or stay at a five-star hotel.....there's something in their profession that bothers me.
There's just not many professions left where I have some trust in what they say or recommend. It's a fairly short list (barbers, barkeepers, farmers, and bar-b-q joint operators).
Is it a growing trend among people? I've come to think that a lot of Americans are growing skeptical of people they used to trust. Judge Judy, Alex Trebek of Jeopardy fame, and Clint Eastwood are among the few left that I would have absolute trust with.
All of these leads back around the world of law enforcement and our general attitude that there's awful of corruption, greed, incompetent nature, and bizarre behavior being demonstrated daily. It's to the point where you get pulled over and you start to immediately look at some guy in sunglasses and black-stormtrooper boots, and think it's some potential scam to rip you off.....one way or another. The guy starts to ask fifteen questions and trying to figure what you did wrong or how to screw you, and you just start to freeze with each question and think....what exactly is this guy going fishing for and why me?
Yeah, it's a sad deal in a way....we've corrupted ourselves enough....to lack trust in the majority of people we run into.
In blunt language, I became an absolute skeptic of either group of people. Whatever they suggested or said.....you had to ask more questions over and have a good bit of doubt over what they were doing.
As the years rolled by....I added other professions onto the list. Safety inspectors, car mechanics, bank clerks, lawyers, insurance agents, and college professors.
Somewhere in the early 1990s.....I added all cops (local, state, federal, FBI, etc). It wasn't very difficult. I came to a point where I realized half of these guys were either unqualified for their job, bothered by mental problems, or just plain stupid. Sadly, half of these guys are trying hard to do their job, and their buddies are screwing the profession over left and right.
By 9-11, I came to be skeptical of Senators, Congressmen and Presidents.
After 9-11....came TSA agents. Maybe half of these guys are qualified for their job and doing a four-star job. The problem is that every time you cross over into some airport....you come up against some joker who ought to be a security guard at some 7-11 operation or a mall in southern Mississippi. One single idiot out of a group of six that you might encounter today at some airport.....who ought to be doing something else other security.
Journalists? I added them around 2010 to the list of folks who you just can't trust. Foundation guys, think-tank experts, and TV news media guys......all fall into this same group. They tell you something, then you realize they skipped some topic or element of the story....intentionally. You'd like for them to back-up and tell this.....but they won't dare explain this because it's not part of their slanted view of the news.
Religious ministers? Well, yeah.....I've put them on the list as well. When they show up in a BMW or stay at a five-star hotel.....there's something in their profession that bothers me.
There's just not many professions left where I have some trust in what they say or recommend. It's a fairly short list (barbers, barkeepers, farmers, and bar-b-q joint operators).
Is it a growing trend among people? I've come to think that a lot of Americans are growing skeptical of people they used to trust. Judge Judy, Alex Trebek of Jeopardy fame, and Clint Eastwood are among the few left that I would have absolute trust with.
All of these leads back around the world of law enforcement and our general attitude that there's awful of corruption, greed, incompetent nature, and bizarre behavior being demonstrated daily. It's to the point where you get pulled over and you start to immediately look at some guy in sunglasses and black-stormtrooper boots, and think it's some potential scam to rip you off.....one way or another. The guy starts to ask fifteen questions and trying to figure what you did wrong or how to screw you, and you just start to freeze with each question and think....what exactly is this guy going fishing for and why me?
Yeah, it's a sad deal in a way....we've corrupted ourselves enough....to lack trust in the majority of people we run into.
Chris Christie: The Number Seven Guy
Back in 2007, Chris Christie had some opportunities and gave a marginal effort. Eight years later, with the stupid bridge episode from New Jersey.....Christie is a guy waiting on an impossible dream to occur.
In New Jersey and New York....he'll make it awful tough for any other Republican to run and capture local votes. He should win both with a 10-percent margin over the number two guy. But beyond that?
In Iowa, at best....he'll end up as the number seven guy. And in half the state primaries.....I don't see doing much better than number seven.
His asset is speeches and debates. With the exception of Cruz and maybe Walker.....he is better than the rest on debate delivery. In terms of pumping up a crowd, he might be at the same level as Walker.
I think he's in this race for strictly one reason.....the VP job. If you look over various combinations and look at the likely leaders of the race (Cruz, Walker and Rubio).....he might fit very well with Walker. Zero chance on VP for Rubio or Cruz.
Had the bridge episode never occurred? Well....that's history now, but you have to figure that his trusted staff really screwed him over when they suggested the bridge episode. Without that screw-up....he might easily be the number two guy today instead of the number seven guy.
Note, I'm even putting Donald Trump in a higher rating than Christie. Trump might carry NY state if Christie can't subtract his support.
In New Jersey and New York....he'll make it awful tough for any other Republican to run and capture local votes. He should win both with a 10-percent margin over the number two guy. But beyond that?
In Iowa, at best....he'll end up as the number seven guy. And in half the state primaries.....I don't see doing much better than number seven.
His asset is speeches and debates. With the exception of Cruz and maybe Walker.....he is better than the rest on debate delivery. In terms of pumping up a crowd, he might be at the same level as Walker.
I think he's in this race for strictly one reason.....the VP job. If you look over various combinations and look at the likely leaders of the race (Cruz, Walker and Rubio).....he might fit very well with Walker. Zero chance on VP for Rubio or Cruz.
Had the bridge episode never occurred? Well....that's history now, but you have to figure that his trusted staff really screwed him over when they suggested the bridge episode. Without that screw-up....he might easily be the number two guy today instead of the number seven guy.
Note, I'm even putting Donald Trump in a higher rating than Christie. Trump might carry NY state if Christie can't subtract his support.
Sunday, 28 June 2015
The Professor, The 'Nice-Guy', and the Stoic Man
It's one of those odd periods of American history that don't get much attention....the early part of the 1900's. Over a sixteen-year period, we had three guys assume the Presidency, who should have been named the professor, the 'nice-guy' and the stoic man.
As Taft got into a messy Republican issue with former President Roosevelt and split votes in Taft's re-election attempt....the outcome was a bit shocking. Woodrow Wilson would end up as President of the United States.
If you wrote Wilson's resume....it'd be a fairly curious and short resume. Wilson was a southerner and the son of a Presbyterian minister. He was a fairly intelligent guy and ended up going through Davidson University and later attended Princeton University out of New Jersey. It's safe to say that he impressed the professors at Princeton. After graduation, for law school....he picked the University of Virginia.
What you can generally say is that he spent roughly a year trying to be a lawyer after graduation, and eventually just gave up. Some folks sum up this part of his life as impatient and having a significant amount of stubbornness.....sticking to one strategy and not able to move onto a plan B when required. It'll be a trait that follows him for the rest of his life.
After the lawyer business....he leans toward a PhD (John Hopkins University), and achieves that in 1886. You can use common sense on this but the only thing a PhD was worth was a full-time professor job....and that's route ahead for him.
Four years, with the help of 'insiders' at Princeton (his old college).....he got himself appointed onto the board of the university. He attends yearly meetings, gives speeches at various dinners, and talks up the changes needed at Princeton. Twelve years would pass, and negativity would brew at Princeton over the leadership of the college. Being on the board, Wilson had various opportunities to help in the brewing process. The college president was terminated because of ineffective leadership and the board wanted changes.....Wilson was offered the chancellor's job and set into play various changes.
It's safe to say some changes were acceptable and some were not. He went after more donations to the university and enlarging the quantity of professors. He brought more attention to the school, and made it clear that he didn't want the previous status of a rich-kid's school where you paid for a degree but didn't clearly earn it.
From 1902 to 1910.....for eight years.....Wilson ran Princeton and got attention throughout New Jersey. At some point in 1910.....the governor's race opened up and he ran. He won with a fairly safe number of votes, and then proceeded to do four brief years of governor duty. In 1914.....with Taft and Roosevelt heavily engaged in a personal vendetta situation....the Democrats didn't see great opportunities and went with a lesser known Wilson as their choice. Oddly, Wilson wins.
From professor, to college president.....mix in four brief years as governor, and now President of the United States.
You can give him mostly positive marks for six years of his period, with the war as part of his record. The last eighteen months? Because of the stroke, he was basically non-existent. No public appearances and the few cabinet meetings held really didn't demonstrate much of anything. The nation wanted a full-time President and a strong guy.
Warren G. Harding would be this strong President character, at least acting that way. Harding's resume? Not much better.
Harding would pick up ownership of a marginal newspaper in Ohio after college and spend the next three decades improving upon it. Most people will note that the real motivation of the newspaper and effective business plan.....was mostly the work of Harding's wife. Harding was a guy who knew how to wear a three-piece suit and looked distinguished no matter what the occasion was. He gave bold speeches throughout Ohio and eventually was noted as someone with political potential. In 1904, he was elected Lieutenant Governor of Ohio...spending two brief years in the job before being elected as Senator of Ohio.
After arriving in DC, he generally got known as a 'nice-guy'. Republican and Democratic Senators liked him. He seemed impressive. His staff, coming out of Ohio with him.....were quickly noted as well.
Harding had two hobbies.....women and poker. His staff had two hobbies.....poker and heavy drinking. It was a good match situation in DC.
Harding, after six years as senator....went for the Presidency and won. Roughly sixty days into the new Presidency....what can generally be said was that his five-star speech ability was mostly bogus and the speeches were empty. The intellectual side of Harding which people had been impressed with during the Senate period had dissolved.....Harding was mostly a marginally bright guy with a bunch of corrupt guys around him. For roughly two years, the corruption situation ran in turbo fashion.
Eventually, Harding kinda woke up and realized the amount of corruption going on. Oddly, on some trip out to the west coast.....Harding died. What historians note is that in the two brief years as President.....he'd packed on a lot of weight and had virtually no physical activities (some suggest he'd gained roughly fifty pounds in two years).
Calvin Coolidge arrives into a job that no one expected him to fulfill. Cal had worked himself up.....lawyer activities, state legislature, and mayor. He was more of an administrator than a leader. He went through both Lieutenant Governor and Governor....getting noted as a practical manager. He ended up on as the VP on Harding's ticket and became a quiet unassuming VP.
It's best to say that Cal quietly did his best to clean up the corruption of the first two years of the Harding administration after he inherited the Presidency. He would run for another term, and then quietly retire from office. If you were looking for one single President with stoic tendencies and simply a good administrator of the office.....Cal is by himself on that level. He was what the nation needed.....a competent guy with no corruption and no intellectual side. Today? No one really mentions Cal much, for the simple reason that he never wanted the attention.
Yeah, for sixteen years....that's the cast of three characters that the nation got stuck with.
As Taft got into a messy Republican issue with former President Roosevelt and split votes in Taft's re-election attempt....the outcome was a bit shocking. Woodrow Wilson would end up as President of the United States.
If you wrote Wilson's resume....it'd be a fairly curious and short resume. Wilson was a southerner and the son of a Presbyterian minister. He was a fairly intelligent guy and ended up going through Davidson University and later attended Princeton University out of New Jersey. It's safe to say that he impressed the professors at Princeton. After graduation, for law school....he picked the University of Virginia.
What you can generally say is that he spent roughly a year trying to be a lawyer after graduation, and eventually just gave up. Some folks sum up this part of his life as impatient and having a significant amount of stubbornness.....sticking to one strategy and not able to move onto a plan B when required. It'll be a trait that follows him for the rest of his life.
After the lawyer business....he leans toward a PhD (John Hopkins University), and achieves that in 1886. You can use common sense on this but the only thing a PhD was worth was a full-time professor job....and that's route ahead for him.
Four years, with the help of 'insiders' at Princeton (his old college).....he got himself appointed onto the board of the university. He attends yearly meetings, gives speeches at various dinners, and talks up the changes needed at Princeton. Twelve years would pass, and negativity would brew at Princeton over the leadership of the college. Being on the board, Wilson had various opportunities to help in the brewing process. The college president was terminated because of ineffective leadership and the board wanted changes.....Wilson was offered the chancellor's job and set into play various changes.
It's safe to say some changes were acceptable and some were not. He went after more donations to the university and enlarging the quantity of professors. He brought more attention to the school, and made it clear that he didn't want the previous status of a rich-kid's school where you paid for a degree but didn't clearly earn it.
From 1902 to 1910.....for eight years.....Wilson ran Princeton and got attention throughout New Jersey. At some point in 1910.....the governor's race opened up and he ran. He won with a fairly safe number of votes, and then proceeded to do four brief years of governor duty. In 1914.....with Taft and Roosevelt heavily engaged in a personal vendetta situation....the Democrats didn't see great opportunities and went with a lesser known Wilson as their choice. Oddly, Wilson wins.
From professor, to college president.....mix in four brief years as governor, and now President of the United States.
You can give him mostly positive marks for six years of his period, with the war as part of his record. The last eighteen months? Because of the stroke, he was basically non-existent. No public appearances and the few cabinet meetings held really didn't demonstrate much of anything. The nation wanted a full-time President and a strong guy.
Warren G. Harding would be this strong President character, at least acting that way. Harding's resume? Not much better.
Harding would pick up ownership of a marginal newspaper in Ohio after college and spend the next three decades improving upon it. Most people will note that the real motivation of the newspaper and effective business plan.....was mostly the work of Harding's wife. Harding was a guy who knew how to wear a three-piece suit and looked distinguished no matter what the occasion was. He gave bold speeches throughout Ohio and eventually was noted as someone with political potential. In 1904, he was elected Lieutenant Governor of Ohio...spending two brief years in the job before being elected as Senator of Ohio.
After arriving in DC, he generally got known as a 'nice-guy'. Republican and Democratic Senators liked him. He seemed impressive. His staff, coming out of Ohio with him.....were quickly noted as well.
Harding had two hobbies.....women and poker. His staff had two hobbies.....poker and heavy drinking. It was a good match situation in DC.
Harding, after six years as senator....went for the Presidency and won. Roughly sixty days into the new Presidency....what can generally be said was that his five-star speech ability was mostly bogus and the speeches were empty. The intellectual side of Harding which people had been impressed with during the Senate period had dissolved.....Harding was mostly a marginally bright guy with a bunch of corrupt guys around him. For roughly two years, the corruption situation ran in turbo fashion.
Eventually, Harding kinda woke up and realized the amount of corruption going on. Oddly, on some trip out to the west coast.....Harding died. What historians note is that in the two brief years as President.....he'd packed on a lot of weight and had virtually no physical activities (some suggest he'd gained roughly fifty pounds in two years).
Calvin Coolidge arrives into a job that no one expected him to fulfill. Cal had worked himself up.....lawyer activities, state legislature, and mayor. He was more of an administrator than a leader. He went through both Lieutenant Governor and Governor....getting noted as a practical manager. He ended up on as the VP on Harding's ticket and became a quiet unassuming VP.
It's best to say that Cal quietly did his best to clean up the corruption of the first two years of the Harding administration after he inherited the Presidency. He would run for another term, and then quietly retire from office. If you were looking for one single President with stoic tendencies and simply a good administrator of the office.....Cal is by himself on that level. He was what the nation needed.....a competent guy with no corruption and no intellectual side. Today? No one really mentions Cal much, for the simple reason that he never wanted the attention.
Yeah, for sixteen years....that's the cast of three characters that the nation got stuck with.
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