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President Coolidge
Crossroads, Issue No. 7, p. 16
President Coolidge
Crossroads, Issue No. 7, p. 16
One day, when Vice President Calvin Coolidge was presiding over the Senate, one Senator angrily told another to go "straight to hell." The offended Senator complained to Coolidge as presiding officer, and Cal looked up from the book he had been leafing through while listening to the debate. "I've been looking through the rule book," he said. "you don't have to go."