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The Coolidge Miracle

How ‘Silent Cal’ cleaned up the federal government after Warren Harding’s many scandals.
President Calvin Coolidge at Desk
Calvin Coolidge, the 30th President of the United States. (Picture via Getty Images)

In Washington, at 1625 K Street Northwest, there stands an unremarkable office building: 12 floors, putty-colored, smallish windows. 

Built in 1941, the Commonwealth Building has been periodically updated over the years to its current state, a nondescript scale on the long snakeskin of K Street lobby and law firms.

Chris Stirewalt is a contributing writer for The Dispatch, the politics editor for The Hill and NewsNation, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, co-host of the Ink Stained Wretches podcast, and author of Broken News, a book on media and politics.

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