ons. While Wilson would come to lose power at the end of his second term, his achievements on the whole are noble, especially considering many of his policies to help improve domestic life were incorporated into the New Deal, and his ideas on keeping world peace would evolve into the United Nations-today’s most effective body for protecting the human and democratic rights of all peoples of all nations.
Perhaps the slogan from the Coolidge administration that best sums up its overall philosophy toward domestic and international issues was “The chief business of America is business,” (Coolidge 1). Coolidge was as against government intervention in American enterprise as Ronald Reagan would be some 50 years later. His time in office had little impact on American society basically because he found not much wrong with things as they were. Domestically, Coolidge was the mouthpiece of big business, to the point of having a wealthy businessman, Frank W. Stearns, devote himself entirely to his political career. Coming to office after the embarrassing, corruption-filled Harding administration, Coolidge focused his energies on the economic health of the country-which is what the presidential election had proven as the primary concern of voters. During his administration, The Tariff Commission was weakened and thew Federal Trade Commission began to look the other way concerning the construction of monopolies. Coolidge also was against labor strikes and refused to recognize the right of policemen in the AFL under Sam Gompers to strike-much also as Reagan would later do when it came to the right of public safety versus the right of air traffic controllers to strike.
Internationally, Coolidge promoted trade through loaning billions of dollars to other nations to increase domestic business. The stock market rose rapidly and steadily with no recognition on behalf of the Coolidge administration of the potential possibility for an upc...