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Calvin Coolidge Gets New Deal in Revisionist History - Michael Barone - Page 1

Posted by XenokRoy 11 years, 10 months ago to Books

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Looks like an interesting book to read

SOURCE URL: http://townhall.com/columnists/michaelbarone/2013/02/25/calvin-coolidge-gets-new-deal-in-revisionist-history-n1518568

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Posted by fivedollargold 11 years, 10 months ago

I heard John Batchelor interview the author, Amity Shlaes, several months ago. The podcast might still be available. One point that stuck with me is that as Coolidge's Sec of State, Herbert Hoover, succeeded in pushing through legislation to send food assistance to Russia during a terrible famine--controversial as the Bolsheviks had taken over by then. Of course, during our own Dust Bowl, we got no help from Russia, and Hoover showed far less regard for starving Americans than he had done for the Rooskies.

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  Posted by XenokRoy 11 years, 10 months ago
  
  makes you wonder how some one who seemed to be a little more small government minded would associate with the great planner (note much sarcasm in the title) Hoover.
  
  Was Hoover Sec of State because of a need to have some alliances with the progressives in order to get anything done or did Coolidge really agree with the man politically and/or philosophically? Were we all ready choosing between progressive light and progressive heavy by this time?
  
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