Fame Is Worth Less Than Service.

The Donning Of The Ear Buds Marks The Beginning Of Teen Life, When Children Set Off On Their Own For The Passage Through Adolescence.

Coolidge Was A Pragmatist. He Didn't Start Out With A Tax Theory. But He Observed Over Time That Lower Tax Rates Sometimes Brought In Extra Revenue. The Success Of His And Treasury Secretary Andrew Mellon's Experiment With Rate Cuts Has Been Obscured By Our Modern History Books.

Today Many Politicians Suggest That Where The Federal Government Does Not Act, There Must Be Anarchy. That View Is Odd, Blinkering Out The Work Of State And Towns, Which Until Recently Did Much Of Our Charitable And Cultural Work. That View Also Blinkers Out The Role Of Mutual Societies And Churches.

Coolidge And His Treasury Secretary Mellon Loved New Technology. Like Jfk, C.c. Divined That A New Technology Could Lift The Nation Out Of Its Doldrums; The Only Difference Was That Jfk's New Technology Was Space Travel, And Coolidge's Travel By Airplane.

The 1920s Are The Decade That Signaled The Arrival Of A Gift That Still Means A Lot To Us: Saturday.