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Article: Fighting Bob vs. Silent Cal: the conservative tradition from La Follette to Taft and beyond.(Essay)
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- Modern Age
- Article date:
- September 22, 2008
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Soon after becoming president in 1981, Ronald Reagan surprised the press by removing the hallowed portrait of Harry Truman from the wall of the White House Cabinet Room and replacing it with one of Calvin Coolidge. The Great Communicator's speaking skills and personal charisma far outstripped the attributes of Silent Cal, but he shared with his presidential predecessor a reputation for being a very conservative Republican coupled with a laid-back executive style. Coolidge's conservatism was cited by Reagan as a role model for his own administration. But the alleged line of descent from Coolidge to Reagan is doubtful in several ways.
From where did the Reagan ...
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Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, WI);
January 31, 2001 ;
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... ... Wisconsin for the next month. Doug La Follette, 60, Wisconsin's longtime secretary ... forbid something would happen to him," La Follette said of McCallum this week. "The odds ... million." But if the unlikely happens, La Follette said he would "do the best I could ...
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