Dwight Morrow at a Dinner Party With Calvin Coolidge

Dwight Morrow, the father of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, once held a dinner party to which Calvin Coolidge had been invited. After Coolidge left, Morrow told the remaining guests that Coolidge would make a good president. The others disagreed. They felt Coolidge was too quiet, that he lacked color and personality. No one would like him, they said. Anne, then age six, spoke up: “I like him,” she said. Then she displayed a finger with a small bandage around it. “He was the only one at the party who was concerned enough to ask about my sore finger.” “And that’s why he would make a good president,” added Morrow. (Bits & Pieces, February 4, 1993, pp. 18-19).