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Presidency of Calvin Coolidge
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Coolidge (1932)
The presidency of Calvin Coolidge began on August 2, 1923, when Calvin Coolidge became President of the United States upon the sudden death of Warren G. Harding, and ended on March 4, 1929. A member of the Republican Party, Coolidge had been Vice President of the United States for 7002881000000000000♠2 years, 151 days when he succeeded to the presidency. Elected to a full four–year term in 1924, he gained a reputation as a small-government conservative.
Coolidge, the 30th United States president, restored public confidence in the presidency after the scandals of his predecessor's administration, and left office with considerable popularity.[1] He supported policies of high tariffs, tax reduction, and federal support to industry during a period of sustained economic prosperity for the nation. He resisted efforts to involve the federal government in the persistent farm crisis that affected many rural communities. In foreign policy, Coolidge continued to keep the United States out of the League of Nations, but he engaged with foreign leaders and sponsored the Kellogg–Briand Pact of 1928.
While Coolidge was greatly admired during his time in office, public opinion soured as the nation plunged into the Great Depression after he left office. Many linked the nation's economic collapse to Coolidge's policy decisions, which did nothing to discourage the wild speculation that was going on and rendered so many vulnerable to economic ruin. Though his reputation underwent a renaissance during the Ronald Reagan administration, modern assessments of Coolidge's presidency are divided. He is adulated among advocates of smaller government and laissez-faire; supporters of an active central government generally view him less favorably, while both sides praise his stalwart support of racial equality.[2] Coolidge was succeeded by fellow Republican Herbert Hoover, who served as Secretary of Commerce throughout both the Coolidge and Harding administrations.
Contents
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1 Accession
2 Administration
2.1 Cabinet
3 Judicial appointments
4 Harding administration scandals
5 Economy and regulation
6 Taxation and government spending
7 Opposition to farm subsidies
8 Flood control
9 Civil rights
10 Immigration
11 Foreign policy
12 Constitutional amendments
13 Elections
13.1 Election of 1924
13.2 1926 midterm elections
13.3 Election of 1928
14 Evaluation and legacy
15 References
16 Further reading
16.1 Articles
17 External links
Accession[edit]
Main article: First inauguration of Calvin Coolidge
Coolidge signing the Immigration Act and some appropriation bills. General John J. Pershing looks on.
On August 2, 1923, President Harding died unexpectedly in San Francisco while on a speaking tour of the western United States. Vice President Coolidge was in Vermont visiting his family home, which had neither electricity nor a telephone, when he received word by messenger of Harding's death.[3] He dressed, said a prayer, and came downstairs to greet the reporters who had assembled.[3] His father, a notary public, administered the oath of office in the family's parlor by the light of a kerosene lamp at 2:47 a.m. on August 3, 1923; President Coolidge then went back to bed. He returned to Washington the next day, and was sworn in again by Justice Adolph A. Hoehling Jr. of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, to forestall any questions about the authority of a notary public to administer the presidential oath.[4]
The nation initially did not know what to make of Coolidge, who had maintained a low profile in the Harding administration; many had even expected him to be replaced on the ballot in 1924.[5] The 1923 United Mine Workers coal strike presented an immediate challenge to Coolidge, who avoided attempting to personally end the strike but convened the United States Coal Commission under the advice of Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover. Pennsylvania Governor Gifford Pinchot, a progressive Republican and potential rival for the 1924 presidential nomination, quickly settled the strike with little input from the federal government. Pinchot's settlement of the strike backfired, as he took the blame for rising coal prices, and Coolidge quickly consolidated his power among Republican elites.[6]
Coolidge addressed Congress when it reconvened on December 6, 1923, giving a speech that supported many of Harding's policies, including Harding's formal budgeting process and the enforcement of immigration restrictions.[7] Coolidge's speech was the first presidential speech to be broadcast over the radio.[8] The Washington Naval Treaty was proclaimed just one month into Coolidge's term, and was generally well received in the country.[9]
Administration[edit]
Cabinet[edit]
The Coolidge Cabinet
Office
Name
Term
President
Calvin Coolidge
1923–1929
Vice President
none
1923–1925
Charles G. Dawes
1925–1929
Secretary of State
Charles Evans Hughes
1923–1925
Frank B. Kellogg
1925–1929
Secretary of Treasury
Andrew Mellon
1923–1929
Secretary of War
John W. Weeks
1923–1925
Dwight F. Davis
1925–1929
Attorney General
Harry M. Daugherty
1923–1924
Harlan F. Stone
1924–1925
John G. Sargent
1925–1929
Postmaster General
Harry S. New
1923–1929
Secretary of the Navy
Edwin Denby
1923–1924
Curtis D. Wilbur
1924–1929
Secretary of the Interior
Hubert Work
1923–1928
Roy O. West
1928–1929
Secretary of Agriculture
Henry C. Wallace
1923–1924
Howard M. Gore
1924–1925
William M. Jardine
1925–1929
Secretary of Commerce
Herbert Hoover
1923–1928
William F. Whiting
1928–1929
Secretary of Labor
James J. Davis
1923–1929
Although a few of Harding's cabinet appointees were scandal-tarred, Coolidge initially retained all of them, out of an ardent conviction that as successor to a deceased elected president he was obligated to retain Harding's counselors and policies until the next election. He kept Harding's able speechwriter Judson T. Welliver; Stuart Crawford replaced Welliver in November 1925.[10] Coolidge appointed C. Bascom Slemp, a Virginia Congressman and experienced federal politician, to work jointly with Edward T. Clark, a Massachusetts Republican organizer whom he retained from his vice-presidential staff, as Secretaries to the President (a position equivalent to the modern White House Chief of Staff).[9] Perhaps the most powerful person in Coolidge's Cabinet was Secretary of the Treasury Andrew Mellon, who controlled the administration's financial policies and was regarded by many, including House Minority Leader John Nance Garner, as more powerful than Coolidge himself.[11] Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover also held a prominent place in Coolidge's Cabinet, in part because Coolidge found value in Hoover's ability to win positive publicity with his pro-business proposals.[12] Secretary of State Charles Evans Hughes directed Coolidge's foreign policy until he resigned in 1925 following Coolidge's re-election. He was replaced by Frank B. Kellogg, who had previously served as a Senator and as the ambassador to Great Britain. Coolidge made two other appointments following his re-election, with William M. Jardine taking the position of Secretary of Agriculture and John G. Sargent becoming Attorney General.[13] Coolidge did not have a vice president during his first term, but Charles Dawes became vice president during Coolidge's second term, and Dawes and Coolidge clashed over farm policy and other issues.[14]
Judicial appointments[edit]
Main article: Calvin Coolidge judicial appointments
Coolidge appointed one justice to the Supreme Court of the United States, Harlan Fiske Stone in 1925. Stone was Coolidge's fellow Amherst alumnus, a Wall Street lawyer and conservative Republican. Stone was serving as dean of Columbia Law School when Coolidge appointed him to be attorney general in 1924 to restore the reputation tarnished by Harding's Attorney General, Harry M. Daugherty.[15] Stone proved to be a firm believer in judicial restraint and was regarded as one of the court's three liberal justices who would often vote to uphold New Deal legislation.[16] President Franklin D. Roosevelt later appointed Stone to be chief justice, a position Stone held until his death in 1946.[17]
Coolidge nominated 17 judges to the United States Courts of Appeals, and 61 judges to the United States district courts. He appointed judges to various specialty courts as well, including Genevieve R. Cline, who became the first woman named to the federal judiciary when Coolidge placed her on the United States Customs Court in 1928.[18] Coolidge also signed the Judiciary Act of 1925 into law, allowing the Supreme Court more discretion over its workload.
Harding administration scandals[edit]
See also: Ohio Gang
In the waning days of Harding's administration, several scandals had begun to emerge into public view. Though Coolidge was not implicated in any corrupt dealings, he dealt with the fallout of the scandals in the early days of his presidency. The Teapot Dome Scandal tainted the careers of former Secretary of the Interior Albert B. Fall (who had resigned in March 1923) and Secretary of the Navy Edwin Denby, and additional scandals implicated Attorney General Harry M. Daugherty and Charles R. Forbes, the former Director of the Veterans Bureau. A bipartisan Senate investigation led by Thomas J. Walsh and Robert LaFolette began just weeks into Coolidge's presidency. As the investigation uncovered further misconduct, Coolidge appointed Atlee Pomerene and Owen Roberts as special prosecutors, but he remained personally unconvinced as to the guilt of Harding's appointees. Despite congressional pressure, he refused to dismiss Denby, who instead resigned of his own accord in March 1924. That same month, after Daugherty refused to resign, Coolidge fired him. Coolidge also replaced the Director of the Bureau of Investigation, William J. Burns, with J. Edgar Hoover. The investigation by Pomerene and Roberts, combined with the departure of the scandal-tarred Harding appointees, served to disassociate Coolidge from the Harding administration's misdeeds.[19]
Economy and regulation[edit]
it is probable that a press which maintains an intimate touch with the business currents of the nation is likely to be more reliable than it would be if it were a stranger to these influences. After all, the chief business of the American people is business. They are profoundly concerned with buying, selling, investing and prospering in the world. (emphasis added)
President Calvin Coolidge's address to the American Society of Newspaper Editors, Washington D.C., January 25, 1925.[20]
During Coolidge's presidency, the United States experienced a period of rapid economic growth known as the "Roaring Twenties." The number of automobiles in the United States increased from 7 million in 1919 to 23 million in 1929, while the percentage of households with electricity rose from 16 percent in 1912 to 60 percent in the mid-1920s.[21] The regulatory state under Coolidge was, as one biographer described it, "thin to the point of invisibility."[22] Coolidge demonstrated his disdain for regulation by appointing commissioners to the Federal Trade Commission and the Interstate Commerce Commission who did little to restrict the activities of businesses under their jurisdiction.[23] He also avoided interfering with the workings of the Federal Reserve, which kept interest rates low and allowed for the expansion of margin trading in the stock market.[24]
Coolidge believed that promoting the interests of manufacturers was good for society as a whole, and he sought to reduce taxes and regulations on businesses while imposing tariffs to protect those interests against foreign competition.[25] The 1922 Fordney–McCumber Tariff allowed the president some leeway in determining tariff rates, and Coolidge used his power to raise the already-high rates set by Fordney–McCumber.[26]
Coolidge left the administration's industrial policy in the hands of Secretary of Commerce Hoover, who energetically used government auspices to promote business efficiency and develop airlines and radio.[27] The Radio Act of 1927 established the Federal Radio Commission under the auspices of the Commerce Department, and the commission granted numerous licenses to large, commercial radio stations.[28] Hoover was a strong proponent of cooperation between government and business, and he organized numerous conferences of intellectuals and businessmen which made various recommendations. Relatively few reforms were passed, but the proposals created the image of an active administration.[29]
Some have labeled Coolidge as an adherent of the laissez-faire ideology, which some critics claim led to the Great Depression.[30] Historian Robert Sobel argues instead that Coolidge's belief in federalism guided his economic policy, writing, "as Governor of Massachusetts, Coolidge supported wages and hours legislation, opposed child labor, imposed economic controls during World War I, favored safety measures in factories, and even worker representation on corporate boards...such matters were considered the responsibilities of state and local governments."[31][32] Historian David Greenberg argues that Coolidge's economic policies, designed primarily to bolster American industry, are best described as Hamiltonian rather than laissez-faire.[25]
Taxation and government spending[edit]
See also: Andrew Mellon § Secretary of the Treasury
Coolidge took office in the aftermath of World War I, during which the United States had raised taxes to unprecedented rates.[33] Coolidge's taxation policy was that of Treasury Secretary Mellon, the ideal that "scientific taxation"—lower taxes—actually increase rather than decrease government receipts.[34] Mellon believed that the benefits of lower taxes on the rich would "trickle down" to the benefit of society as whole by encouraging increased investment. The Revenue Act of 1921, which had been proposed by Mellon, had reduced the top marginal tax rate from 71% to 58%, and Mellon sought to further reduce rates and abolish other taxes during Coolidge's presidency.[35]
Though Coolidge sought to lower spending, he spent early 1924 opposing the World War Adjusted Compensation Act or "Bonus Bill."[36] With a budget surplus, many legislators wanted to reward the veterans of World War I with extra compensation, arguing that the soldiers had been paid poorly during the war. Coolidge and Mellon preferred to use the budget surplus to cut taxes, and they did not believe that the country could pass both bills and maintain a balanced budget. However, the bill gained wide support and was endorsed by several prominent Republicans, including Henry Cabot Lodge and Charles Curtis. Coolidge vetoed the Bonus Bill, but Congress overrode his veto, handing Coolidge a defeat in his first major legislative battle.[37]
With his legislative priorities now in jeopardy, Coolidge backed off on his goal of lowering the top tax rate down to 25%.[38] After much legislative haggling, Congress passed the Revenue Act of 1924, which reduced income tax rates and eliminated all income taxation for some two million people.[39] The act reduced the top marginal tax rate from 58% to 46%, but increased the estate tax and bolstered it with a new gift tax.[40] After his re-election in 1924, Coolidge sought further tax reductions,[41] and Congress cut taxes with the Revenue Acts of 1926 and 1928, all the while continuing to keep spending down so as to reduce the overall federal debt.[42] By 1927, only the wealthiest 2% of taxpayers paid any federal income tax.[42] Federal spending remained flat during Coolidge's administration, allowing one-fourth of the federal debt to be retired in total. Coolidge would be the last president to significantly reduce federal debt until Bill Clinton's tenure in the 1990s, although intervening presidents presided over a reduction of debt in proportion to the country's gross domestic product.[43] During Coolidge's presidency, state and local governments saw considerable growth, surpassing the federal budget in 1927.[44]
Opposition to farm subsidies[edit]
Coolidge with his vice president, Charles G. Dawes
Perhaps the most contentious issue of Coolidge's presidency was relief for farmers. During the 1920s, the United States faced a farm crisis that proved devastating to many rural areas.[45] Some in Congress proposed a bill designed to fight falling agricultural prices by allowing the federal government to purchase crops to sell abroad at lower prices.[46] Agriculture Secretary Henry C. Wallace and other administration officials favored the bill when it was introduced in 1924, but rising prices convinced many in Congress that the bill was unnecessary, and it was defeated just before the elections that year.[47] Wallace died in 1924, and was replaced by William Marion Jardine, an outspoken opponent of the McNary–Haugen Farm Relief Bill and government interventionism in agriculture.[48] McNary-Haugen proposed a federal farm board that would purchase surplus production in high-yield years and hold it (when feasible) for later sale or sell it abroad.[49] Coolidge opposed McNary-Haugen, declaring that agriculture must stand "on an independent business basis," and said that "government control cannot be divorced from political control."[49] Instead of manipulating prices, he favored instead Herbert Hoover's proposal to create profits by modernizing agriculture. Secretary Mellon wrote a letter denouncing the McNary-Haugen measure as unsound and likely to cause inflation, and it was defeated.[50]
After McNary-Haugen's defeat, Coolidge supported a less radical measure, the Curtis-Crisp Act, which would have created a federal board to lend money to farm co-operatives in times of surplus; the bill did not pass.[50] In February 1927, Congress took up the McNary-Haugen bill again, this time narrowly passing it, and Coolidge vetoed it.[51] The bill, which bore the name of Republicans members of Congress, had passed the Senate with the help of Coolidge's own vice president.[14] In his veto message, Coolidge expressed the belief that the bill would do nothing to help farmers, benefiting only exporters and expanding the federal bureaucracy.[52] Congress did not override the veto, but it passed the bill again in May 1928 by an increased majority; again, Coolidge vetoed it.[51] "Farmers never have made much money," said Coolidge, the Vermont farmer's son. "I do not believe we can do much about it."[53] Secretary Jardine developed his own plan to address the farm crisis that established a Federal Farm Board, and his plan eventually would form the basis of the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1929.[54]
Flood control[edit]
Coolidge has often been criticized for his actions during the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927, the worst natural disaster to hit the Gulf Coast until Hurricane Katrina in 2005.[55] Although he did eventually name Secretary Hoover to a commission in charge of flood relief, scholars argue that Coolidge overall showed a lack of interest in federal flood control.[55] Coolidge did not believe that personally visiting the region after the floods would accomplish anything, and that it would be seen as mere political grandstanding. He also did not want to incur the federal spending that flood control would require; he believed property owners should bear much of the cost.[56] On the other hand, Congress wanted a bill that would place the federal government completely in charge of flood mitigation.[57] When Congress passed a compromise measure in 1928, Coolidge declined to take credit for it and signed the Flood Control Act of 1928 in private on May 15.[58]
Civil rights[edit]
Osage men with Coolidge after he signed the bill granting Native Americans U.S. citizenship.
Coolidge spoke in favor of the civil rights of African-Americans, saying in his first State of the Union address that their rights were "just as sacred as those of any other citizen" under the U.S. Constitution and that it was a "public and a private duty to protect those rights."[59][60] He appointed no known members of the Ku Klux Klan to office; indeed, the Klan lost most of its influence during his term.[61] His administration commissioned studies to improve programs for Native Americans.
Coolidge repeatedly called for laws to prohibit lynching, saying in his 1923 State of the Union address that it was a "hideous crime" of which African-Americans were "by no means the sole sufferers" but made up the "majority of the victims."[60] However, most Congressional attempts to pass this legislation were filibustered by Southern Democrats.[62] Coolidge appointed some African-Americans to federal office; he retained Harding's choice of Walter L. Cohen of New Orleans, Louisiana, as the comptroller of customs and offered Cohen the post of minister to Liberia, which the businessman declined.
On June 2, 1924, Coolidge signed the Indian Citizenship Act, which granted U.S. citizenship to all American Indians, while permitting them to retain tribal land and cultural rights. By that time, two-thirds of the people were already citizens, having gained it through marriage, military service (veterans of World War I were granted citizenship in 1919), or the land allotments that had earlier taken place.[63][64][65] The act was unclear on whether the federal government or the tribal leaders retained tribal sovereignty.[66] His administration appointed the Committee of One Hundred, a reform panel to examine federal institutions and programs dealing with Indian nations. This committee recommended that the government conduct an in-depth investigation into reservation life (health, education, economics, justice, civil rights, etc.). This was commissioned through the Department of Interior and conducted by the Brookings Institution, resulting in the groundbreaking Meriam Report of 1928.
Immigration[edit]
In reaction to immigration from Eastern Europe and other regions, a strong nativism movement had arisen in the years prior to Coolidge's presidency. Prior to Coolidge's presidency, Congress had passed the Immigration Act of 1917, which imposed a literacy test on immigrants, as well as the Emergency Quota Act of 1921. The latter act had put a temporary cap on the number of immigrants accepted into the country. Coolidge endorsed an extension of the cap on immigration in his 1923 State of the Union, but his administration was less supportive of the continuation of the National Origins Formula, which effectively restricted immigration from countries outside of Northwestern Europe. Secretary of State Hughes strongly opposed the quotas, particularly the total ban on Japanese immigration, which violated the Gentlemen's Agreement of 1907 with Japan. However, when Congress passed the Immigration Act of 1924, Coolidge signed the bill despite his reservations. As the Immigration Act of 1924 remained in force until the passage of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, it greatly affected the demographics of immigration for several decades.[67]
Foreign policy[edit]
Although not an isolationist, Coolidge was reluctant to enter into foreign alliances.[68] He considered the 1920 Republican victory as a rejection of the Wilsonian position that the United States should join the League of Nations.[69] While not completely opposed to the idea, Coolidge believed the League, as then constituted, did not serve American interests, and he did not advocate membership.[69] He spoke in favor of the United States joining the Permanent Court of International Justice (World Court), provided that the nation would not be bound by advisory decisions.[70] In 1926, the Senate eventually approved joining the Court (with reservations).[71] The League of Nations accepted the reservations, but it suggested some modifications of its own.[72] As the Senate failed to act, the United States never joined the World Court.[72]
In the aftermath of World War I, several European nations struggled with debt, including billions of dollars owed to the United States. These European nations were owed an enormous sum from Germany in the form of World War I reparations, and the German economy buckled under the weight of these reparations. Coolidge rejected calls to forgive Europe's debt or lower tariffs on European goods, but the Occupation of the Ruhr in 1923 stirred him to action. On Secretary of State Hughes's initiative, Coolidge appointed Charles Dawes to lead an international commission to reach an agreement on Germany's reparations. The resulting Dawes Plan provided for a withdrawal restructuring of the German debt, and the United States loaned money to Germany to help it repay its debt other countries. The Dawes Plan led to a boom in the German economy and a sentiment of international cooperation. In 1925, Germany and several other European states signed the Locarno Treaties, which settled several territorial disputes.[73]
Coolidge's primary foreign policy initiative was the Kellogg–Briand Pact of 1928, named for Secretary of State Kellogg and French foreign minister Aristide Briand. The treaty, ratified in 1929, committed signatories—the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, and Japan—to "renounce war, as an instrument of national policy in their relations with one another."[74] The treaty did not achieve its intended result—the outlawry of war—but it did provide the founding principle for international law after World War II.[75] Coolidge's policy of international disarmament allowed the administration to decrease military spending, a part of Coolidge's broader policy of decreasing government spending.[76]
After the Mexican Revolution, the U.S. had refused to recognize the government of Álvaro Obregón, one of the revolution's leaders. Secretary of State Hughes had worked with Mexico to normalize relations during the Harding administration, and President Coolidge recognized the Mexican government in 1923. To help Obregón defeat a rebellion, Coolidge also lifted an embargo on Mexico and encouraged U.S. banks to loan to the Mexican government. In 1924, Plutarco Elías Calles took office as President of Mexico, and Calles sought to limit American property claims and take control of the holdings of the Catholic church. However, Ambassador Dwight Morrow convinced Calles to allow Americans to retain their rights to property purchased before 1917, and Mexico and the United States enjoyed good relations for the remainder of Coolidge's presidency.[77]
The United States' occupation of Nicaragua and Haiti continued under his administration, but Coolidge withdrew American troops from the Dominican Republic in 1924.[78] Coolidge led the U.S. delegation to the Sixth International Conference of American States, January 15–17, 1928, in Havana, Cuba. This was the only international trip Coolidge made during his presidency.[79] There, he extended an olive branch to Latin American leaders embittered over America's interventionist policies in Central America and the Caribbean.[80] For 88 years he was the only sitting president to have visited Cuba, until Barack Obama did so in 2016.[81]
Constitutional amendments[edit]
After the Supreme Court twice—in Hammer v. Dagenhart (1918) and Bailey v. Drexel Furniture (1922)—ruled that federal laws regulating and taxing goods produced by employees under the ages of 14 and 16 were unconstitutional, Congress, on June 2, 1924, approved an amendment to the United States Constitution that would that would specifically authorize Congress to regulate "labor of persons under eighteen years of age", and submitted it to the state legislatures for ratification.[82] Coolidge expressed support for the amendment in his first State of the Union.[83] The amendment, commonly known as the Child Labor Amendment, was never ratified by the requisite number of states, and, as there was no time limit set for its ratification, is still pending before the states.[84] However, the Supreme Court overturned Hammer v. Dagenhart in the 1941 case of United States v. Darby Lumber Co., making the Child Labor Amendment a moot issue.[85]
Elections[edit]
Election of 1924[edit]
Main article: United States presidential election, 1924
1924 electoral vote results
The Republican Convention was held on June 10–12, 1924, in Cleveland, Ohio; Coolidge was nominated on the first ballot.[86] Coolidge's nomination made him the second unelected president to win his party's nomination for another term, after Theodore Roosevelt. Coolidge had been largely unknown when he took office, but he quickly shored up the support of most factions in his party, with the exception of the progressives.[87] The convention nominated Frank Lowden of Illinois for vice president on the second ballot, but he declined; former Brigadier General Charles G. Dawes was nominated on the third ballot and accepted.[86]
The Democrats held their convention the next month in New York City. The convention soon deadlocked, and after 103 ballots, the delegates finally agreed on a compromise candidate, John W. Davis, with Charles W. Bryan nominated for vice president. The Democrats' hopes were buoyed when Robert LaFolette, a Republican senator from Wisconsin, split from the GOP to form a new Progressive Party. La Follette's Progressives were motivated by the conservatism of both major party candidates, as well as an ongoing farm crisis that united many frustrated farmers.[88] They hoped to throw the election to the House by denying the Republican ticket an electoral vote majority, and some Progressives hoped to permanently disrupt the two-party system.[89] On the other hand, many believed that the split in the Republican party, like the one in 1912, would allow a Democrat to win the presidency.[90]
After the conventions and the death of his younger son Calvin, Coolidge became withdrawn; he later said that "when he [the son] died, the power and glory of the Presidency went with him."[91] It was the most subdued campaign since 1896, partly because of Coolidge's grief, but also because of his naturally non-confrontational style.[92] Coolidge relied on advertising executive Bruce Barton to lead his messaging campaign, and Barton's ads depicted Coolidge as a symbol of solidity in an era of speculation.[93] Although the Harding administration had been tarred by several scandals, by 1924 several Democrats had also been implicated and the partisan responsibility of the issue had been muddled.[94] Coolidge and Dawes won every state outside the South except Wisconsin, La Follette's home state. Coolidge won 54% of the popular vote, while Davis took just 28.8% and La Follette won 16.6%, one of the strongest third party presidential showings in U.S. history. In the concurrent Congressional elections, Republicans increased their majorities in the House and Senate.[95]
1926 midterm elections[edit]
Republicans lost seats in both the House and Senate in the 1926 midterm elections, but retained a majority in both houses. The reduced number of seats deprived Coolidge's conservative allies of a working majority in Congress.[96]
Election of 1928[edit]
Main article: United States presidential election, 1928
1928 electoral vote results
While on vacation in the summer of 1927, Coolidge surprisingly issued a terse statement that he would not seek a second full term as president.[97] In his memoirs, Coolidge explained his decision not to run: "The Presidential office takes a heavy toll of those who occupy it and those who are dear to them. While we should not refuse to spend and be spent in the service of our country, it is hazardous to attempt what we feel is beyond our strength to accomplish."[98] Despite significant opposition from within the party, Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover won the presidential nomination at the 1928 Republican National Convention.[99] Coolidge was reluctant to endorse Hoover as his successor; on one occasion he remarked that "for six years that man has given me unsolicited advice—all of it bad."[100] Even so, Coolidge had no desire to split the party by publicly opposing the nomination of the popular commerce secretary.[101] Hoover won the 1928 presidential election in a third consecutive Republican landslide, taking 58.2% of the popular vote and 444 electoral votes over Democratic Governor Al Smith of New York. The 1928 Congressional elections also saw Republicans increase their majorities in the House and Senate.
Evaluation and legacy[edit]
Coolidge was generally popular during his presidency, but the onset of the Great Depression in 1929 damaged his reputation, as many linked the economic troubles to Coolidge's economic policies. Coolidge's reputation in foreign policy suffered in the 1930s as it became clear that the Dawes Plan and other policies had done little to prevent the rise of international hostilities. In the 1980s, Ronald Reagan and other conservatives looked to the Coolidge administration as a model of laissez-faire policy.[102] Polls of historians and political scientists generally rank Coolidge as below-average president.
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Scholarly sources
Barry, John M. (1997). Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America. Simon & Schuster. ISBN 978-0-684-84002-4.
Deloria, Vincent (1992). American Indian Policy in the Twentieth Century. University of Oklahoma Press. ISBN 978-0-8061-2424-7.
Ferrell, Robert H. (1998). The Presidency of Calvin Coolidge. University Press of Kansas. ISBN 978-0-7006-0892-8.
Freeman, Jo (2002). A Room at a Time: How Women Entered Party Politics. Rowman and Littlefield. ISBN 978-0-8476-9805-9.
Fuess, Claude M. (1940). Calvin Coolidge: The Man from Vermont. Little, Brown. ISBN 978-1-4067-5673-9.
Greenberg, David (2006). Calvin Coolidge. The American Presidents Series. Times Books. ISBN 978-0-8050-6957-0.
McCoy, Donald R. (1967). Calvin Coolidge: The Quiet President. Macmillan. ISBN 1468017772.
Shlaes, Amity (2013). Coolidge. New York: HarperCollins. ISBN 978-0-06-196755-9.
Sobel, Robert (1998). Coolidge: An American Enigma. Regnery Publishing. ISBN 978-0-89526-410-7.
White, William Allen (1938). A Puritan in Babylon: The Story of Calvin Coolidge. Macmillan.
Wilson, Joan Hoff (1975). Herbert Hoover, Forgotten Progressive. Little, Brown. ISBN 978-0-316-94416-8.
Articles[edit]
Bates, J. Leonard (January 1955). "The Teapot Dome Scandal and the Election of 1924". The American Historical Review. 60 (2): 303–322.
Buckley, Kerry W. (December 2003). "'A President for the "Great Silent Majority': Bruce Barton's Construction of Calvin Coolidge". The New England Quarterly. 76 (4): 593–626. doi:10.2307/1559844. JSTOR 1559844.
Felzenberg, Alvin S. (Fall 1998). "Calvin Coolidge and Race: His Record in Dealing with the Racial Tensions of the 1920s". New England Journal of History. 55 (1): 83–96.
Galston, Miriam (November 1995). "Activism and Restraint: The Evolution of Harlan Fiske Stone's Judicial Philosophy". 70 Tul. L. Rev. 137.
Keller, Robert R. (3 September 1982). "Supply-Side Economic Policies during the Coolidge-Mellon Era". Journal of Economic Issues. 16 (3): 773–790.
Polsky, Andrew J.; Tkacheva, Olesya (Winter 2002). "Legacies versus Politics: Herbert Hoover, Partisan Conflict, and the Symbolic Appeal of Associationalism in the 1920s". International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society. 16 (2): 207–235.
Rusnak, Robert J. (Spring 1983). "Andrew W. Mellon: Reluctant Kingmaker". Presidential Studies Quarterly. 13 (2): 269–278.
Shideler, James H. (June 1950). "The La Follette Progressive Party Campaign of 1924". The Wisconsin Magazine of History. 33 (4): 444–457.
Williams, C. Fred (Spring 1996). "William M. Jardine and the Foundations for Republican Farm Policy, 1925-1929". Agricultural History. 70 (2): 216–232.
Zieger, Robert H. (December 1965). "Pinchot and Coolidge: The Politics of the 1923 Anthracite Crisis". The Journal of American History. 52 (3): 566–581.
Primary sources
Coolidge, Calvin (1919). Have Faith in Massachusetts: A Collection of Speeches and Messages (2nd ed.). Houghton Mifflin.
Coolidge, Calvin (2004) [1926]. Foundations of the Republic: Speeches and Addresses. University Press of the Pacific. ISBN 1-4102-1598-9.
Coolidge, Calvin (1929). The Autobiography of Calvin Coolidge. Cosmopolitan Book Corp. ISBN 0-944951-03-1.
Coolidge, Calvin (2001). Peter Hannaford, ed. The Quotable Calvin Coolidge: Sensible Words for a New Century. Images From The Past, Incorporated. ISBN 978-1-884592-33-1.
Coolidge, Calvin (1964). Howard H. Quint and Robert H. Ferrell, ed. The Talkative President: The Off-the Record Press Conferences of Calvin Coolidge. University of Massachusetts Press.
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Calvin Coolidge
30th President of the United States (1923–1929)
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Ghosts of Girlfriends Past
Promotional film poster
Directed by
Mark Waters
Produced by
Brad Epstein
Jonathan Shestack
Written by
Jon Lucas
Scott Moore
Starring
Matthew McConaughey
Jennifer Garner
Breckin Meyer
Lacey Chabert
Robert Forster
Anne Archer
Emma Stone
Michael Douglas
Music by
Rolfe Kent
Cinematography
Daryn Okada
Edited by
Bruce Green
Distributed by
New Line Cinema
Release date
May 1, 2009 (2009-05-01)
Running time
95 minutes
Country
United States
Language
English
Budget
$37.5 million
Box office
$102.2 million[1]
Ghosts of Girlfriends Past is a 2009 American romantic comedy film whose plot is based on Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol. Mark Waters directed a script by Jon Lucas and Scott Moore. Filming spanned February 19, 2008 to July 2008 in Massachusetts with stars Matthew McConaughey, Breckin Meyer, Jennifer Garner, Lacey Chabert and Michael Douglas. The film was released on May 1, 2009.[2]
Ghosts of Girlfriends Past features a wedding day and the day before, rather than the familiar Christmas and Christmas Eve from A Christmas Carol. The three ghosts share similar appearances with the original descriptions, and the film shares the traditional plot points from the book.
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2 Cast
3 Production
4 Soundtrack
5 Reception
5.1 Critical reaction
5.2 Box office
6 Home media
7 See also
8 References
9 External links
Plot[edit]
Connor Mead (Matthew McConaughey) is a famous photographer and confirmed womanizer. He takes a break from his playboy lifestyle to attend his brother Paul's wedding, where he becomes reacquainted with Jenny Perotti (Jennifer Garner), Connor's childhood friend and the only girl who's ever captured his heart. After Connor delivers a drunken speech at the rehearsal dinner where he says that love isn't real, he's met in the bathroom by the ghost of his uncle Wayne (Michael Douglas), a roué who taught Connor everything he knows about seducing women. Wayne informs Connor that, over the course of the evening, he will be visited by three ghosts who will lead him through his romantic past, present, and future.
The first ghost is the "Ghost of Girlfriends Past" in the form of Allison Vandermeersh (Emma Stone), one of his high school girlfriends and his first lover. Together, they revisit scenes from his past, focusing on his relationship with Jenny. In 1982, Connor and Jenny were very close as children; she gave him his first instant camera which he used to take her picture, promising to keep it forever. When Connor's parents died in a car accident, Jenny consoles Connor throughout the years without them, as she, his brother Paul and his uncle Wayne were all he had left. By middle school, the two were on the verge of romance, but Connor's hesitation at asking her for a dance caused Jenny to dance with and kiss another boy. Heartbroken, Connor was told by Wayne that he must avoid romance at all costs in order not to feel such pain again. For the next two years, Wayne schooled Connor in the art of seduction. When he next saw Jenny, at a high school party, Connor ignored her and kissed another girl named Allison, whom he had his first sexual encounter with. Several years later, as adults, Connor and Jenny rekindled their romance, but Jenny forced him to woo her for several weeks in an attempt to rid him of his womanizing ways. After they finally did have sex, Connor falls in love with her, but when he lies in bed with her to fall asleep beside her, he remembers his uncle Wayne's warnings about sleeping and spooning with the opposite sex after a night of passion. Realizing this, he panics, running out on her so he won't be hurt. The next morning, Jenny wakes up alone and broken-hearted. His relationships thereafter consisted of a series of very short flings.
Awakening back in the Mead mansion in the present, Connor accidentally destroys Paul and Sandra's (his bride-to-be) wedding cake and unsuccessfully attempts to reconcile with Jenny. After his failed attempt, Connor returns to his uncle Wayne's room and finds another woman awaiting him in his bed and, fearing that this woman was the next "Ghost" to accompany him on his journey to show him how he became "himself", panics and runs out of his room, though it's clear after he leaves that the woman in the bed awaiting him is actually one of the bridesmaids hoping to have sex with him. As he storms out of the house, he is confronted by the "Ghost of Girlfriends Present" in the form of his assistant Melanie (Noureen DeWulf), the only constant female figure in his life. With her, he sees that in his absence the other wedding guests make fun of him and his shallow lifestyle. Paul stands up for his brother, recalling that Connor helped raise him after their parents' death, and expresses his hope that Connor will someday change for the better. As the bridemaids discusse their love lives, one of them makes a remark about Jenny being emotionally twisted beyond recognition by Connor to the point that she's unable to move on to a new relationship. Jenny hears this and though Sandra tries to comfort her, Jenny leaves the room hurt and in tears. Melanie guides Connor to the kitchen to show him a crying Jenny as she tries to repair Paul and Sandra's wedding cake. Connor also sees that Jenny is being comforted by Brad (Daniel Sunjata), and is upset that his own actions and attitude are bringing the two closer. He is further upset to discover that Melanie and the three women whom he previously broke up with by conference call are bonding over his disregard for their feelings.
Returning to the house, Connor finds Sandra furious at learning that Paul had slept with one of her bridesmaids very early in their relationship, information that Connor had let slip earlier in the evening. Connor attempts to mend the situation but only makes things worse, and Paul tells him to leave. On his way out, he is confronted by the "Ghost of Girlfriends Future" (Olga Maliouk), who takes him forward in time to see that Jenny marries Brad while Paul remains alone. Further in the future, Paul is the only mourner at Connor's funeral. Wayne appears and tells Connor that this is his future if he continues on the same path, pushing him into the grave to be buried by his many ex-girlfriends.
Connor awakens in the Mead home and learns that Sandra has called off the wedding and is on her way to the airport. He intercepts the bridal party and convinces Sandra to forgive Paul by sharing lessons learned from his own mistakes, particularly that the pain of heartbreak is outweighed by the regret of never risking one's heart in the first place, something he admits to always regretting having done. Connor helps Jenny to restart the wedding, which he photographs, and afterwards he reconciles with Jenny by showing her the picture he still carries of her as a child and by promising to always be there when she wakes up. The two kiss and dance in the snow to the same song Connor once hesitated to ask her to dance to.
Meanwhile, Wayne tries to hit on the ghost of girlfriends future, but she magically vanishes after throwing a drink in his face. Then he tries to hit on the ghost of girlfriends present, but Melanie informs Wayne she is one of the attendees and vanishes. Melanie and Brad start talking and then dancing. Wayne is left with the ghost of girlfriends past, Allison, who is not interested since she is only 16. Wayne says that they are ghosts and therefore ageless.
Cast[edit]
Matthew McConaughey as Connor 'Dutch' Mead
Devin Brochu as Young Connor
Logan Miller as Teenage Connor
Jennifer Garner as Jenny Perotti
Kasey Russell as Young Jenny
Christa B. Allen as Teenage Jenny
Michael Douglas as Wayne S. Mead
Breckin Meyer as Paul Mead
Lacey Chabert as Sandra Volkom
Robert Forster as Sergeant Major Mervis Volkom
Daniel Sunjata as Brad Frye
Emma Stone as Allison Vandermeersh, the Ghost of Girlfriends Past
Noureen DeWulf as Melanie, the Ghost of Girlfriends Present
Drew Barrymore as the Ghost of Girlfriends Future
Anne Archer as Vonda Volkom
Amanda Walsh as Denice
Camille Guaty as Donna
Rachel Boston as Deena
Christina Milian as Kalia
Emily Foxler as Nadja
Production[edit]
Ghosts of Girlfriends Past was originally set up at Touchstone Pictures with Ben Affleck attached to play the lead character, but he opted out of the movie.[3] It was primarily filmed at Castle Hill in Ipswich, Massachusetts[4] The film was also the first pairing of Michael Douglas and Anne Archer since the 1987 hit thriller Fatal Attraction, although they shared no scenes together. Jennifer Garner and Christa B. Allen again appear together for the first time since 13 Going on 30 in 2004, and they again play the older and younger versions of the same character.
Ghosts of Girlfriends Past was cast by veteran Hollywood casting director Marci Liroff.
Soundtrack[edit]
"Ghosts of Girlfriends Past" - All Too Much featuring Matthew Sweet
"Hush" - Gavin Rossdale
"Got a Lot of Love for You Baby" - The Ralph Sall Experience
"Keep on Loving You" - REO Speedwagon
"You Can't Hurry Love" - The Ralph Sall Experience
"Ladies Night" - Kool & the Gang
"The Safety Dance" - Men Without Hats
"Yeah (Dream of Me)" - All Too Much
"Holding Back the Years" - Simply Red
"Sleep" - All Too Much
Reception[edit]
Critical reaction[edit]
As of January 2011, the film received negative reviews and holds a 26% rating on the website Rotten Tomatoes, based on 140 reviews.[5] Metacritic lists it with a 34 out of 100, which indicates "generally unfavorable reviews", based on 29 reviews.[6]
Box office[edit]
On the film's opening weekend, it debuted at #2 with a gross of $15.4 million (3,175 theaters, $4,854 average), far behind X-Men Origins: Wolverine's $85.1 million gross.[7] The film made $55.3 million in the United States and Canada along with $47 million from foreign territories for a worldwide total of $102.2 million.[1]
Home media[edit]
The film was released on DVD on September 22, 2009.[8]
See also[edit]
List of ghost films
References[edit]
^ Jump up to: a b "Ghosts of Girlfriends Past (2009)". Box Office Mojo. 2009-08-13. Retrieved 2012-03-05.
Jump up ^ "The Ghosts of Girlfriends Past - Release Dates". 2009.
Jump up ^ "Ghosts of Girlfriends Past". Filmfreakcentral.net. 2009-05-01. Archived from the original on 2012-03-06. Retrieved 2012-03-05.
Jump up ^ "Locations".
Jump up ^ "Ghosts of Girlfriend's Past". IGN Entertainment. Rotten Tomatoes. 2009. Retrieved January 10, 2011.
Jump up ^ "Ghosts of Girlfriend's Past: Reviews". Metacritic. 2009. Retrieved May 24, 2009.
Jump up ^ "Box Office Mojo". Box Office Mojo. 2009-05-04. Retrieved 2012-03-05.
Jump up ^ O'Connell, Sean (May 1, 2009). "Ghosts of Girlfriends Past". filmcritic.com. Archived from the original on December 30, 2011. Retrieved January 10, 2011.
External links[edit]
Official website
Ghosts of Girlfriends Past on IMDb
Ghosts of Girlfriends Past at AllMovie
Ghosts of Girlfriends Past at Box Office Mojo
Ghosts of Girlfriends Past at Rotten Tomatoes
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