Two more.

That's what Americans demand to their presidents these days.

A real president, Democrat or Republican knows how to use the office.

A real president makes things happen.

Or so the conventional wisdom.

But actually, there is another model.

A president can succeed through inaction by doing as little as possible.

One such president was Calvin Coolidge.

When the time he took office in 1923 to the time he left in 1929, Coolidge served a philosophy

that was simple and powerful.

Don't do.

Coolidge was our great refrainer.

The leadership style matched his personal style.

Coolidge did not waste words, hence his nickname, Silent Cow.

He did not grandstand for these quiet ways the 30th president absorbed much abuse.

A Washington socialite Alice Longworth said that Coolidge looked like he had been

weaned on a pickle.

Coolidge cut a sharp contrast to Alice's father, Theodore Roosevelt, who had served

a decade and a half earlier.

And what a contrast Coolidge provided with another Roosevelt, Franklin, who came just

a few years later.

The refrainer is worth getting to know because he got the kind of results, men of action,

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