AH.com Challenge: Make Calvin Collidge a Candidate for Greatest US President

I love these little things.

Anyway, opinions of Collidge remain divided to this day. Some think he was good, others think bad. I challenge you to make "Silent Cal" a candidate for "greatest President in US history", right up there with Washington and Lincoln.

Bonus points as always if he's looked at kindly both during his term and by historians later on.
 
Sign the Farm Relief Bill, help crops more and either prevent or soften the Dusbowl, therefore softening the Great Depression. Or not.
 
The problem is, he wouldn´t get any points for preventing the great Depression, because nobody would know that a Great Depression was even likly. The easiest way for greatness, like allways: Give him a great victorious war.
 
Instead of allowing Hoover a shot, he goes for a third term and (rather easily) wins it.

And then he fixes the relatively short and shallow 'Recession Of 1930-31'.
 
The problem is, he wouldn´t get any points for preventing the great Depression, because nobody would know that a Great Depression was even likly.

Time travel, dude. Time travel.

On a more serious note, you are correct: if he won a large war, that would certainly count in his favour.
 
The problem is, he wouldn´t get any points for preventing the great Depression, because nobody would know that a Great Depression was even likly. The easiest way for greatness, like allways: Give him a great victorious war.

Maybe Stalin becomes aggresive and invades Europe causing the US to send troops to Europe and crushes the USSR.
 
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