"The name of Coolidge provoked another outburst. When I informed him that I had just left his successor at the White House, he asked me what I thought of him. I replied that I was not quite sure. He replied: âI will tell you what he is like. Oscar Wilde once saw a man who was giving himself great airs at a social function. He went up to him and putting on his eyeglassââhere Wilson took his glasses in his right hand and fixed them at his eyeââhe said to him: âAre you supposed to be anyone in particular?â Coolidge is no one in particular.â Here was the old Wilson with his personal hatreds unquenched right to the end of his journey."
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Presidents of the United StatesPoliticians from MassachusettsAutobiographers from the United StatesPoliticians from VermontUnited States presidential candidates, 1932
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David Lloyd George recounting Woodrow Wilson's opinion of Coolidge in 1923, The Truth about the Peace Treaties: Volume I (1938), p. 241
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Calvin Coolidge
1872 â 1933
US-amerikanischer Politiker
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