there was a rogue president of amherst, his friend dwight morrow had put in. michael jones name is from wisconsin where he went later and created an interesting experimental college as a great legacy there. michael john -- was progressive in a way that the amherst men weren't used to. and he basically wasn't friendly to world world war i. and that was as divisive as the iraq war has been lately. it was a scissors through society, you were on one side or the other, you were on amherst or michael john. and eventually they forced him out, he didn't go easily and coolidge was on the side that forced him out, and he wasn't happy with that because he could see -- they could all see michael john was talented. it was a hard call. and they were all -- all of a sudden these nice men had negative articles about him in the new republic when they fancied themselves fine fellose. and they thought what they were doing was for amherst, and michael john spent quite a bit of money, he borrowed and other than spent on his personal life. this was a burr on their sides. they were

dwight decided he had underrated calvin, and that dwight was dwight morrow who then went to law school, became a big partner at j.p. morgan. in fact, when j.p. morgan was kind of down, dwight like underdogs, and eventually calvin as president, said dwight to patch it up with mexico in a a terrible typist dwight was our ambassador there, and he had a daughter called and moral and coolidge sit down charles lindbergh to chip the mexicans, to bring some comedy to the place and that is how and morrow lindbergh became and morrow lindbergh. a lot of history can out of that very sort of understood, look the sad to begin of undergraduate life at amherst for calvin coolidge c-span: when you read about and of personality, it defies logic that this meant the do-nothing president of the united states. because, called oddball, , silet cal. how silent was he? >> guest: very silent. we many stories. there's a famous story of calvin were a lady said, i bet i could get you to say was into words at this dinner, mr. sir. 80 was vice president. rice coach told the story from his wife. and he said, you lose