Calvin Coolidge
'Silent Cal' — the most laconic president in history spoke so few words that people invented parlor games around it. Coolidge's hands-off economic policies produced the Roaring Twenties boom but set up the conditions for the 1929 crash he was lucky enough to exit before.
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