With a Republican-controlled Congress behind him, the Republican Calvin Coolidge sought to promote industrial growth by cutting back federal regulation. As president, he viewed his greatest
accomplishment as “minding [his) own business” because "four-fifths of our troubles would
disappear if we would sit down and keep still."
What does President Coolidge's perspective on capitalism and the role of the president
demonstrate about Republican party policy in the 1920s and its relationship with the
progressivism of the early twentieth century?