[78-L] Coolidge^
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N7MW at aol.com
Mon Mar 8 15:37:40 PST 2010
A variation on the advice I once received prior to what promised to be a
long business meeting to 'never miss an opportunity to empty what's full and
fill what's empty'...
In a message dated 3/8/2010 4:25:51 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time,
julianvein at blueyonder.co.uk writes:
buster wrote:
> Coolidge was a New Englander, which goes a long way towards explaining
his taciturn approach to the world.
>
> My Great-Uncle Ransom Carver, born in 1902 here in Boston, was taken by
Great-Grandfather to visit the President - how this came about is lost, but
certainly the White House was far more accessible in those days, and
Great-Grandfather was a prominent attorney from an old New England family.
Having just graduated Harvard, Uncle Ran asked President Coolidge if he had any
advice for a young man just starting out in the world.
>
> Coolidge reflected for a moment, then replied "Never pass up an
opportunity to use the restroom."
>
> Good advice, presidential or not, and our family has followed it ever
since.
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This sounds like a variation on some advice given by a friend: "Do like
royalty, go whenever you can!"
Julian Vein
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