Yet, almost everyting I read about him is in direct contrast to the current so called conservatives. Is it a conspiracy of liberal historians? "We need more of the office desk, and less of the Show Window in politics. Let men in office substitute the midnight oil for the limelight." "I have never been hurt by what I have not said." "It takes a great man to be a good listener." "To live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded to the human race." These are but a few quotes that put him at odds with today's extremists who call themselves conservatives. In the shadow of the aftermath of the "Chicago Race Riot," of 1919, overt racism in American politics was not uncommon. When a writer encouraged Coolidge to oppose a Black man running for Congress in New York, he responded by praising the 500,000 Blacks who were drafted into the Army for WWI. He noted that not one of them refused or avoided conscription. His long rebuke of racism ended with his position that all people in America were legally equal as guaranteed by the Constitution. He would be drummed out of today's alt-right dominated lesser version of the once proud conservative-Republican Party.
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