When Coolidge died, I think it was Dorothy Parker who said "How could anybody tell?" Then there's the famous story about the lady who asserted she could make him say more than three words. He responded, "Madame, you lose."
Unlike almost anyone here, I agree with Paul Johnson's assertion that after Reagan, Coolidge was the best president in America's twentieth century.
But my views on politics conflict with those of our judge and agree with those of the author of this dignified sonnet. I think it is very hard to write such a poem. Lord knows, I can't do it with anywhere near this degree of aplomb. Timothy
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