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| | 4. "Keep Cool with Coolidge." That was the campaign slogan he used. I like everything about the Cooldige administration. He made choices confidently and desicively, and good, conservative choices at that. "Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise: and he that shutteth his lips is esteemed a man of understanding." (Proverbs 17:28) | | 4. "Keep Cool with Coolidge." That was the campaign slogan he used. I like everything about the Cooldige administration. He made choices confidently and desicively, and good, conservative choices at that. "Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise: and he that shutteth his lips is esteemed a man of understanding." (Proverbs 17:28) |
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| − | 5. During the Great Depression, private enterprise did not have much of a chance to create jobs. I would want people to be able to get back on their feet right as soon as possible. | + | 5. During the Great Depression, private enterprise did not have much of a chance to create more jobs. I would want people to be able to get back on their feet right as soon as possible. On the other hand, I feel the New Deal was government intervention overkill. Cut taxes first, especially on the lower and middle-class, then subsidize farmers in the Dust Bowl: they needed the most help. |
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| | + | I liked the ideas of the Civilian Conservation Corps, and the Federal Emergency relife Act. These programs gave workers an opportunity to make a living, and were also good for the government. |
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| | 6. Yes, we definitely should have dropped the atomic bombs on Japan. While some sorces believe that Japan was going to surrender anyway, whether or not we had bombed them, I don't think they would have. We see in Okinawa the Japanese never backed down and they certainly weren't going to give up their own homes, no matter what they said. | | 6. Yes, we definitely should have dropped the atomic bombs on Japan. While some sorces believe that Japan was going to surrender anyway, whether or not we had bombed them, I don't think they would have. We see in Okinawa the Japanese never backed down and they certainly weren't going to give up their own homes, no matter what they said. |
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| | 7. In 1933, Franklin D. Roosevelt received Dictatorial Powers (or power like a dictator) from the House and Senate. The power Teddy Roosevelt gained was small indeed compared to what Congress gave FDR to wield during the Great Depression: that infamous idea of a New Deal. | | 7. In 1933, Franklin D. Roosevelt received Dictatorial Powers (or power like a dictator) from the House and Senate. The power Teddy Roosevelt gained was small indeed compared to what Congress gave FDR to wield during the Great Depression: that infamous idea of a New Deal. |
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