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"Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong."
John Calvin Coolidge became President when his predecessor, Warren Harding, unexpectedly died of a heart attack in California in 1923. In 1924, he won a term of his own, and quickly established a public image as a man who believed in small-government ideas, restoring public faith in the White House after the scandals of previous leaders, building a reputation as a quiet, competent man who represented the hopes and ideals of the American middle class. Though the verdict is divided today, in his lifetime he enjoyed an enormously powerful reputation.
Despite all of this, he only served once. He willingly declined to seek a second term in office, leaving the way open for Hoover's administration.
My question is, what if he had been convinced to seek a second term? The economy had not yet begun to collapse and he was still widely popular, so could he have won and then carried on to 1932? Could he have maintained more support to his administration than Hoover? Would a Coolidge Administration running to 1932 change the timeline significantly, apart from the obvious?