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A few words about Silent Cal
President Coolidge gets some serious attention at the JFK Library this week
I have a theory about presidential reputations: No matter how badly you mess up in the Oval Office, sooner or later a genial, honey-penned historian — did someone mention David McCullough? — will come along and discover your “greatness.’’ It worked for Harry Truman, and I am convinced that, in my lifetime, a sympathetic biographer will free Richard Nixon from ... (Full article: 675 words)
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