Talk:Calvin Coolidge

Misleading information

The section portraying Coolidge as being “widely admired for his stalwart support of racial equality” appears misleading and insufficiently contextualized. Recent scholarship highlights that Coolidge supported strongly nativist policies, including signing the Immigration Act of 1924, which was grounded in racial quotas and eugenic reasoning. While he occasionally condemned the Ku Klux Klan and made a few symbolic appointments, these actions did not amount to substantive support for racial equality, especially given his administration’s inaction on segregation and racial violence. I recommend revising this passage for neutrality and adding citations that reflect current historical consensus. ~2025-37528-33 (talk) 16:13, 30 November 2025 (UTC)

Sleep patterns

Anywhere in the article we can include his sleep patterns?

(11 hours per night and 2-4 hour nap after lunch)

See: https://theconversation.com/a-brief-history-of-presidential-lethargy-111331

“Coolidge the snoozer

Other presidents were more intentional about their daytime sleeping. Calvin Coolidge’s penchant for hourlong naps after lunch earned him amused scorn from contemporaries. But when he missed his nap, he fell asleep at afternoon meetings. He even napped on vacation. Tourists stared in amazement as the president, blissfully unaware, swayed in a hammock on his front porch in Vermont. This, for many Republicans, wasn’t a problem: The Republican Party of the 1920s was averse to an activist federal government, so the fact that Coolidge wasn’t seen as a hard-charging, incessantly busy president was fine. Biographer Amity Shlaes wrote that “Coolidge made a virtue of inaction” while simultaneously exhibiting “a ferocious discipline in work.” Political scientist Robert Gilbert argued that after Coolidge’s son died during his first year as president, Coolidge’s “affinity for sleep became more extreme.” Grief, according to Gilbert, explained his growing penchant for slumbering, which expanded into a pre-lunch nap, a two- to four-hour post-lunch snooze and 11 hours of shut-eye nightly.” Delcoan (talk) 18:56, 26 January 2026 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 28 February 2026

Reference 206 contains a dead link.

Please change the reference from

Presidents rated: Truman, Ike near the top. Chicago Tribune. The World. February 4, 1982. Retrieved September 29, 2024.

to use an archival link

Presidents rated: Truman, Ike near the top. Chicago Tribune. The World. February 4, 1982. Archived from the original on October 4, 2024. Retrieved September 29, 2024. Hvaor (talk) 02:10, 28 February 2026 (UTC)

 Done Thanks for hunting down the archive link. LizardJr8 (talk) 02:26, 28 February 2026 (UTC)

External links review

This article, along with some others listed at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject External links#US presidents, and an example like Talk:Grover Cleveland#External links review has an enormous number of links in the section. Although sometimes incremental edits over time, possibly no recent reviews, and a section can grow exponentially.

This article has 17 links in 4 subsections. It does not seem arguable that this could run counter to too much detail or cruft and could be against What Wikipedia is Not. Other points could be LINKFARM, ELPOINTS #3, or ELCITE, and likely ELOFFICIAL and ELMIN LINKFARM, ELPOINTS #3, and likely ELCITE (reference date etc...).

I haven't dug deep, and hopefully some will weigh in, but it could certainly result in article improvements. -- Otr500 (talk) 02:10, 8 June 2026 (UTC)