Amity Shlaes' interesting book, Coolidge, revived a "Coolidge is cool" movement among conservatives. Ronald Reagan may have started the revival when he replaced Harry Truman's portrait with one of Coolidge in the Cabinet Room. Michele Bachmann reflected a Tea Party sensibility about Coolidge when she proposed adding his visage to Mount Rushmore. What conservatives like about Coolidge, whom they see as the last of the non-progressive presidents, is his personal and political sense of self-restraint: Shlaes refers to him as "the great refrainer." They also like his tax-cutting and expense-reducing policies that accompanied the robust economic growth of the roaring 20's.
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