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Black Hills vacation

I read many years ago that during Coolidge's visit to the Black Hills, before his "choose not to run" remark, he met Gutzon Borglum at Mt. Rushmore, and upon seeing his model for the proposed sculpture said "The President is not a great man; he is only a man." If that's true, it would be useful to include it. ~2025-31158-02 (talk) 02:16, 25 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Meeting with reporters

In light of President Trump's propensity to meet with reporters, even during journeys on Air Force One, the word "since" in the remark in the Radio section "meeting with reporters more regularly than any president before or since" should be replaced with "until Donald Trump". ~2025-31158-02 (talk) 02:27, 25 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Misleading information

The section portraying Coolidge as being “widely admired for his stalwart support of racial equality” appears misleading and insufficiently contextualized. Recent scholarship highlights that Coolidge supported strongly nativist policies, including signing the Immigration Act of 1924, which was grounded in racial quotas and eugenic reasoning. While he occasionally condemned the Ku Klux Klan and made a few symbolic appointments, these actions did not amount to substantive support for racial equality, especially given his administration’s inaction on segregation and racial violence. I recommend revising this passage for neutrality and adding citations that reflect current historical consensus. ~2025-37528-33 (talk) 16:13, 30 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Sleep patterns

Anywhere in the article we can include his sleep patterns?

(11 hours per night and 2-4 hour nap after lunch)

See: https://theconversation.com/a-brief-history-of-presidential-lethargy-111331

“Coolidge the snoozer

Other presidents were more intentional about their daytime sleeping. Calvin Coolidge’s penchant for hourlong naps after lunch earned him amused scorn from contemporaries. But when he missed his nap, he fell asleep at afternoon meetings. He even napped on vacation. Tourists stared in amazement as the president, blissfully unaware, swayed in a hammock on his front porch in Vermont. This, for many Republicans, wasn’t a problem: The Republican Party of the 1920s was averse to an activist federal government, so the fact that Coolidge wasn’t seen as a hard-charging, incessantly busy president was fine. Biographer Amity Shlaes wrote that “Coolidge made a virtue of inaction” while simultaneously exhibiting “a ferocious discipline in work.” Political scientist Robert Gilbert argued that after Coolidge’s son died during his first year as president, Coolidge’s “affinity for sleep became more extreme.” Grief, according to Gilbert, explained his growing penchant for slumbering, which expanded into a pre-lunch nap, a two- to four-hour post-lunch snooze and 11 hours of shut-eye nightly.” Delcoan (talk) 18:56, 26 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]