[ExI] Calvin Coolidge

[spike at rainier66.com]

From: extropy-chat <extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org> On Behalf Of John Clark via extropy-chat
Subject: [ExI] Calvin Coolidge

 

On Sun, Jan 11, 2026 at 4:23 PM <spike at rainier66.com <mailto:spike at rainier66.com> > wrote:

 

 > My favorite president has been dead for 93 years this month.

 

>…That surprises me because I've heard you generate excuses for He Who Must Not Be Named many many times but I can't remember you ever doing that for Calvin Coolidge….

 

I was unaware that either of them need excuses.  The polls suggest otherwise.

 

>…As for me my favorite president is John F Kennedy because of what he did during 13 days in October of 1962. ….John K Clark

 

Agree Kennedy was a great one.

 

People where I live convinced themselves that Cape Canaveral would be a target for nukes because we had the rocket launch capability there.  The populace were generally unaware that nukes could be launched from submarines, that being a relatively new capability then.  Our family did not have a TV then but we had a radio.  I was too young to know what was going on.  My parents packed our pickup truck and prepared to drive over to Ocala, where we would camp and survive the best we could until the radiation diminished.  My grandparents who lived up the street had a TV.  They came over and told us we didn’t need to go, that the commies had backed down.

 

I have no personal memory of any of this, but my older brother’s very vague earliest memories were that event.  Many were permanently traumatized by that.

 

spike  

 

 

 

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