Calvin Coolidge
After the untimely death of President Warren Harding in 1923, Calvin Coolidge took over since he was the vice president at the time, but he also won the 1924 presidential election and was in office until 1929. A massive supporter of laissez-faire foreign policy and small government, Coolidge was really popular when his term ended because many people thought of his presidency as a period that had dignity in the role of the president, since the White House was embroiled in multiple scandals for several years. Coolidge had a soft spoken demeanor, fought for the things that he believed were right, and strongly supported racial equality and civil rights but even so, the rest of the government’s approval was something that he didn’t always get, like the time he wanted lynching to be made into a federal crime. Coolidge managed to pass the Indian Citizenship Act, which granted full American citizenship to all Native Americans on reservations, and his biographer wrote about him: “He embodied the spirit and hopes of the middle class, could interpret their longings and express their opinions. That he did represent the genius of the average is the most convincing proof of his strength”.
Calvin Coolidge
Coolidge’s Strange Morning Rituals
Some might find it bizarre that the 30th U.S. president had two pet raccoons who he affectionately named “Reuben” and “Rebecca”. However his pets have nothing on his morning ritual of having Vaseline massaged into scalp as he enjoyed his breakfast in bed.
Coolidges Strange Morning Rituals
