Called Coolidge, Calvin Coolidge Loved Having His Head Rubbed with Vaseline while He Ate Breakfast in Bed.

Calvin Coolidge, who was often called by his last name Coolidge, had a weird desire, that some might call a fetish (fetishes are not always of the sexual variety). Calvin Coolidge loved having his head rubbed with Vaseline while he ate breakfast in bed. He was also often called “Silent Cal” as Coolidge was once challenged by a journalist who said, “I bet someone that I could get more than two words out of you.” Coolidge’s response? “You lose.”

The President is famous for being considered by some libertarians to be the “only” laissez faire President. They say this might be due to the fact that he never desired to be President (as those that desire power are often corrupt), and was sort of forced into it. The Republican party forced him to be Vice President after his famous victory over the police unions (he said “no one has the right to strike against the public safety”), and the President at the time died in office, which made Calvin Coolidge the new leader. Rather than by election, he was President by circumstance. Under Calvin Coolidge, America became a world power, America overcame a depression that was deeper than the “Great Depression” but ended shortly under his rule, and after it, America experienced the “Roaring Twenties”, where incomes of ordinary Americans under Coolidge rose dramatically, thanks in part to his laissez faire style of leadership. Like most ordinary people, he did have a guilty pleasure: Calvin Coolidge loved having his head rubbed with Vaseline while he ate breakfast in bed.

As strange as that may seem, that’s certainly more than can be said for the average power-hungry politician and their usual sex scandals or other corrupt offenses. He is also one of the foremost leaders in Civil Rights, though he is often forgotten by historians because he opposed taxation and government expansion. On June 2, 1924, Coolidge signed the Indian Citizenship Act, which granted full U.S. citizenship to all American Indians, while permitting them to retain tribal land and cultural rights. Coolidge also repeatedly called for anti-lynching laws to be enacted, to stop the Ku Klux Klan and others in the Democratic party controlled South.