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- Title: Fighting Bob Vs. Silent Cal: The Conservative Tradition from La Follette to Taft and Beyond (Essay)
- Author : Modern Age
- Release Date : January 22, 2008
- Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 209 KB
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Soon after becoming president in 1981, Ronald Reagan surprised the press by removing the hallowed portrait of Harry Truman from the wall of the White House Cabinet Room and replacing it with one of Calvin Coolidge. The Great Communicator's speaking skills and personal charisma far outstripped the attributes of Silent Cal, but he shared with his presidential predecessor a reputation for being a very conservative Republican coupled with a laid-back executive style. Coolidge's conservatism was cited by Reagan as a role model for his own administration. But the alleged line of descent from Coolidge to Reagan is doubtful in several ways. From where did the Reagan Revolution and its contemporary conservative heirs spring? Analyses from scholars, pundits, and activists alike usually begin somewhere in the 1940s. Emphasis is placed on opposition to the bureaucratic regimentation of the New and Fair Deals and on the anti-communism that provided the grassroots backbone supporting the Cold War. For the most part, it is a post-World War II survey that assumes a philosophical jump from Edmund Burke to Robert Taft. But what happened in between? One might ask what was going on during the first four decades of the twentieth century. It would be profitable to discover how Cold War conservatism related to earlier American political movements and ideological conflicts within the Republican Party.