US Presidents 30-42
Title: US Presidents 30-42
Category: Society & Culture / People
Details: Words: 5795 | Pages: 24.7 (approximately 235 words/page)
US Presidents 30-42
30. President - Calvin Coolidge
Term - August 3, 1923 to March 3, 1929
Coolidge set out to establish a working relationship with the leading members of the Harding administration, and he drew on many people for advice and help. The scandals of Harding's presidency, particularly the Teapot Dome oil affair, were coming to light, and Coolidge spent much of his time defending his party. His relations with Congress were unhappy, but he coped with scandal by prosecuting offenders, and, thanks to …showed first 75 words of 5795 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 5795 total…had success with a number of targeted domestic programs on education, health, and the environment; won an increase in the minimum wage; and sponsored a welfare reform bill that established time limits for benefits. He claimed credit for the general health of the economy, for a 30-year low in unemployment, and for the fastest real-wage growth in 20 years. The 1998 fiscal year ended with a federal budget surplus of billion, the first surplus in a generation.
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