Answer to this interesting question:

Learned to twin budget cuts with tax cuts -- not to undertake the latter without the former. CC had twin lion cubs he or someone in his administration named Budget Bureau and Tax Reduction to dramatize the pt. If you cut budgets simultaneous to tax cuts, the electorate may support you. Trust is a big problem with electorates today. There is something disingenuous about the GOP policy today.

Harding for President. I understand James Grant may be working on his bio. Harding warrants an upward revise. Thank you for the note, Byron. Congratulations on engagement!

Coolidge documentary: happy to report that with Michael Pack of Manifold Productions, there will be a film. Manifold has produced many fine films, including Hamilton with R Brookhiser.  Judith Levy, where do you live? We need all the help we can get....

For Forgotten Man, we are already doing the graphic novel. I'll alert you when artist Paul Rivoche completes, which should be soon.

Further, to James of England: 

urtis: a great topic.

Harding: Admire him much. He led the party, including CC, in the economy (saving) and normalcy program, which would benefit us so much if we could embrace it today. But while Harding's mind was committed to austerity and saying "no," his heart wanted to say "yes." So he failed, and in doing so hurt causes he loved. His father made a joke about him, that it was a good thing WGH was not a girl, for  if he were, he'd always be "in the family way." The joke matters, since it makes clear giving in was a pattern with this tragic pres.

James of England places some serious demands. Min wage: CC was all over the map on this. He surely understood the economic argument against the minimum wage. His friend Bruce Barton recalled him saying: "isn't it a strange thing that in every period of social unrest men have the notion they can pass a law and spend the operations of economic law" -- CC was referring to price controls or wage controls in historic Belchertown. But CC saw the necessity for political concessions, and often gave in on wages, seeing min wages as a lesser evil. Remember there were very ugly strikes in those days, and Coolidge often found himself forced to negotiate in places like Lawrence, Mass. 

On tariffs, CC failed to budge, despite efforts of his friends, especially the enlightened Dwight Morrow.  But again, CC saw tariffs as a political necessity, a lesser evil.