Chapter 28"Press On!"
History has not yet decided in which niche to
place the marble bust of President Calvin Coolidge. His
life is still too close to put in proper perspective. It is as
if history were holding his bust as a giant chessman, uncer-
tain where to place it on the chessboard of eternity.
And we, ourselves, haven't thought much about
Calvin Coolidge lately, because we are still caught up in
the excitement of the youthful enthusiasm of a John Ken-
nedy whose ideas and ideals were cut short of the depth
of full maturity and transferred, in a blinding Hash of
national shock, to a determined Lyndon Johnson, plodding
doggedly toward his own place in history, to be replaced, in
turn, by cautious, careful Richard Nixon.
In the case of Calvin Coolidge, let us thought-
fuly consider what he said, even as we await the final judg-
ment of history on what he did.
One thing we know. Calvin Coolidge thought