Amity Shlaes, Columnist

Correcting the Coolidge Record: Echoes

July 7, 2011 at 3:46 PM UTC

Amity Shlaes, chairman of the Calvin Coolidge Presidential Foundation, is the author of "Great Society" and co-editor, with Matthew Denhart, of a new edition of Coolidge's autobiography.

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Jim Cooke, a Coolidge impersonator and presidential expert, wrote in to note that my previous Echoes post had Coolidge slightly wrong.

Coolidge said: "The chief business of the American people is business" and not, as the column said, "The chief business of America is business."