The clip is important for its message, although the oratory skills of "Silent Cal" were scarcely that of William Jennings Byran. Wait for the total amount of federal debt being talked about.

President Coolidge, 1st Presidential Film (1924)

Found this as part of a discussion on who was the greatest President in the last 100 years --- with Calvin Coolidge ranking higher than Ronnie Reagan. This is also a good read....

http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/can-you-name-the-greatest-president-of-the-past-100-years/

Excellent find.... :) :) :) 8)

I enjoyed the part about the government workers making $5 per day 300 days per year.....

With paid holidays and vacation it is now closer to 222 day per year... :-X :-X

I'm a big fan of early film and radio, and hadn't seen this clip before. Coolidge was not a very good public speaker --- something I found unusual in an age when Great Oratory was taught in many schools as an important facet of adult comportment.

Thankfully, by the early 1930s when Coolidge died, public speaking veered away from flowery or Classics-laced fluff and allusion. Coolidge actually was among the last of the pols who escaped having to improve his verbal game. Compared to a Bryan, even the detestably elitist FDR came off as plain-spoken.