Calvin Coolidge in 1924.
It is probably (and sadly) no coincidence that the first time a Presidential address was committed to film with sound was the last time a Presidential address made any damn sense.
"The staggering sum of $700 million."
Today the only thing staggering about that figure is how low it is (adjusting for inflation, that figure is roughly equivalent to $10 billion, at most...yeah, still pretty staggering in an era where the DOD burns through $2-3 billion in Iraq every week.
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I'm a big fan of determining what type of Republican or Democrat people are. For example, if I had to label myself as a Republican, I'd have to say I was a Coolidge Republican. Definitely not a Nixon, or Bush I or II. And if I had to be a type of Democrat, I'd have to be a Grover Cleveland Democrat.
How about you?
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