Have Faith in Massachusetts

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Calvin Coolidge is generally remembered as our most laconic President, to the point that most jokes about him revolve around the silence of ""Silent Cal."" But the President of Amherst College, while conferring on Coolidge an honorary Doctor of Laws, praised him for teaching the lesson of ""adequate brevity.""

Before he went to Washington as Vice President, and then succeeded to the Presidency, Coolidge was the 46th Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts (1916-19), and then the Bay State's "