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Line 110: − − File:Coolidge Cabinet.jpg|President Calvin Coolidge's cabinet*Coolidge's cabinet in 1924, outside the White House*Front row, left to right:Harry Stewart New, John W. Weeks, Charles Evans Hughes, Coolidge, Andrew Mellon, Harry M. Daugherty, Curtis D. Wilbur Back row, left to right, James J. Davis, Henry C. Wallace, Herbert Hoover, Hubert Work
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| spouse = {{marriage|[[Grace Coolidge|Grace Goodhue]]|October 4, 1905}}
| spouse = {{marriage|[[Grace Coolidge|Grace Goodhue]]|1905}}
| children = {{hlist|[[John Coolidge|John]]|Calvin Jr.}}
| children = {{hlist|[[John Coolidge|John]]|Calvin Jr.}}
| alma_mater = [[Amherst College]]
| alma_mater = [[Amherst College]]
He did not run for re-election in 1928 and published [[The Autobiography of Calvin Coolidge|his autobiography]] the following year. He died of a heart attack in Massachusetts when he was 60.
He did not run for re-election in 1928 and published [[The Autobiography of Calvin Coolidge|his autobiography]] the following year. He died of a heart attack in Massachusetts when he was 60.
His legacy is mixed. People who support more federal government involvement in the economy do not like him. People who support less federal government involvement in the economy like him.
== "Silent Cal" ==
== "Silent Cal" ==
Coolidge was nicknamed "Silent Cal" because he did not talk much. There is a story that at a dinner party, a woman once told Coolidge that she could get more than two words out of him and that he replied, "You lose."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Af8DAAAAMBAJ&dq=calvin+coolidge+%22you+lose%22+%22two+words+out+of+you%22&pg=PA20|title=Boys' Life|first=Boy Scouts of America|last=Inc|date=January 1997|publisher=Boy Scouts of America, Inc.|via=Google Books}}</ref>
Coolidge was nicknamed "Silent Cal" because he did not talk much. There is a story that at a dinner party, a woman once told Coolidge that she could get more than two words out of him and that he replied, "You lose."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Af8DAAAAMBAJ&dq=calvin+coolidge+%22you+lose%22+%22two+words+out+of+you%22&pg=PA20|title=Boys' Life|first=Boy Scouts of America|last=Inc|date=January 1997|publisher=Boy Scouts of America, Inc.|via=Google Books}}</ref>
File:HardingCoolidge.jpg|President Harding and Vice President Coolidge with their wives
File:HardingCoolidge.jpg|President Harding and Vice President Coolidge with their wives
File:Calvin Coolidge by Doris Ulmann, c. 1924, platinum print, from the National Portrait Gallery - NPG-NPG 85 90Coolidge-000001 (cropped).jpg|President Coolidge c.1924, portrait by [[Doris Ulmann]]
File:CalvinCoolidgeimmigration3.jpg|President Coolidge signing appropriation bills for the Veterans Bureau, June 1924
File:CalvinCoolidgeimmigration3.jpg|President Coolidge signing appropriation bills for the Veterans Bureau, June 1924
File:Attendees at Conference on Future of Smithsonian Institution.jpg|At the [[Smithsonian Institution]], February 1927. Left to right: Secretary of the Treasury, [[Andrew Mellon]]; Secretary of State, [[Frank B. Kellogg]]; President Calvin Coolidge; former president and Chief Justice [[William Howard Taft]], Secretary of the Smithsonian, [[Charles D. Walcott]] among others.
File:Attendees at Conference on Future of Smithsonian Institution.jpg|At the [[Smithsonian Institution]], February 1927. Left to right: Secretary of the Treasury, [[Andrew Mellon]]; Secretary of State, [[Frank B. Kellogg]]; President Calvin Coolidge; former president and Chief Justice [[William Howard Taft]], Secretary of the Smithsonian, [[Charles D. Walcott]] among others.
File:Calvin Coolidge video montage.ogg|Collection of video clips of President Coolidge
File:Calvin Coolidge video montage.ogg|Collection of video clips of President Coolidge