NationStates Jolt Archive

Mine would have to be Calvin Coolidge. The only thing I can fault him for is his monetary policy, in which so many dollars were uncovered by gold deposits. Otherwise, he was a wise and able president under whom we had 7% economic growth per year (the highest ever), low taxes, low unemployment (3.3%), and a reduction of national debt. Not to mention he said this

Four-fifths of all our troubles would disappear, if we would only sit down and keep still.

Who is your favorite obscure president?

http://members.tripod.com/~CARIART/Calvin_Coolidge.jpg

can it be president of any country?

Polk!

Just 'cause my friends and I would say "Who's the greatest President? POLK!" and then we'd poke each other.

Actually, his foreign policies were pretty interesting...

James K. Polk, followed by Zachary Taylor.

Eisenhower.

James Madison, followed by Alexander Hamilton.
*prepares to give a cookie to the first poster to point out the semi-obvious*

Kennedy!




Oh, I thought you meant somebody who did absolutely nothing, and therefore should be obscure. Go figure.

Mine would have to be Calvin Coolidge. The only thing I can fault him for is his monetary policy, in which so many dollars were uncovered by gold deposits. Otherwise, he was a wise and able president under whom we had 7% economic growth per year (the highest ever), low taxes, low unemployment (3.3%), and a reduction of national debt.

Yeah, but that growth happened to lead to the Depression with his laissez-faire approach. ;) I do love him for being simple, quiet, and efficient.


Who is your favorite obscure president?

Dunno. Cleveland for running three times and winning two, James Buchanan for wearing blinders at a bad time ("Secession? What? Excuse me, my 'roomate' is calling").

I like William Jennings Bryan for sticking around for so long. A running joke in our US II class is to guess any Cabinet or ambassador position as WJB.

"FDR chose as running mate in '32. . ."
"William Jennings Bryan!"
"He's still dead, amazingly."

Mine would have to be Calvin Coolidge. The only thing I can fault him for is his monetary policy, in which so many dollars were uncovered by gold deposits. Otherwise, he was a wise and able president under whom we had 7% economic growth per year (the highest ever), low taxes, low unemployment (3.3%), and a reduction of national debt. Not to mention he said this



Who is your favorite obscure president?

William Harrison. Or perhaps his grandson Benjamin, aka "the ice king".

Millard Fillmore?

Thirded on Calvin Coolidge. He's got a sweet name and his quotes make me laugh. Especially the three word's one.

Yeah, but that growth happened to lead to the Depression with his laissez-faire approach. ;)

Mmmm, that's more the result of the pyramid of debt that was created by having so few gold reserves to back up so much money. Which I mentioned.

I say William Henry Harrison.

He was badass enough to give a reeaaally long speech in the freezing rain. And died for it.

And was pretty clueless when running. Just this dirt poor old 1812 veteran. The whigs were all "Well, no one hates him?" And when the Democrats tried to insult him with the 'log cabin' and drinking a lot, he turned that into a compliment.

Polk is just plain awesome.

Benjamin Harrison is cool in that he can get away with "Some of my best friends are under 10 years of age" and was even more clueless than his awesome grandfather...

I like William Jennings Bryan for sticking around for so long. A running joke in our US II class is to guess any Cabinet or ambassador position as WJB.

"FDR chose as running mate in '32. . ."
"William Jennings Bryan!"
"He's still dead, amazingly."

Heh. We have the same joke in our US II class as well.

I must say Calvin Coolidge is my favourite obscure president, partly because he was born in Vermont.

William Henry Harrison; "I died in thirty days!"

Not sure, but definately NOT Kaczyński.

1. Coolidge.
2. Hoover. People blamed him for the depression and say that he didn't try to do anything to end it. I think he was just elected at the wrong time. The Depression was the result of easy credit and banks investing peoples' savings in the stock market in order to gain money faster. Once the stock market crashed, millions of people lost their savings because the banks were dumbasses. Hoover tried to end the depression by calming the public down and setting up public works projects to lower unemployment by creating jobs, but he lost the next election to Roosevelt, who also tried to (and succeeded) calm the public down and created government jobs for people. He also created policies that were socialist, almost Communist. He got credit for ending the Great Depression, even though the GD was really ended by Hitler and the global war he started. If it wasn't for Hitler, there wouldn't be a WWII and WWII would never have rescued the American economy. So credit Hitler's insanity and imperialism for saving the economy of one of the nations that helped destroy Hitler's Nazi empire. Ironic how one of the darkest periods of human history did some good.

3. LBJ. Although he's hated for heightening the Veitnam War, people fail to credit him for helping the Civil Rights movement.

Who is your favorite obscure president?

Coolidge or Cleveland.

William Henry Harrison; "I died in thirty days!"

He's one of the best Presidents ever; he wasn't around long enough to fuck up. :D

Coolidge or Cleveland.

What about van Buren?

Monroe!

What about van Buren?

Winner for Coolest Sideburns, little else! :D
http://home.att.net/~jamesg/MVanBuren.jpg

McKinley...if only for being assassinated by an anarchist. :p