• You Don't Have To Go

  Contributed by Daniel Austin on Oct 8, 2009 (message contributor)

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YOU DON'T HAVE TO GO

Calvin Coolidge was vice president of the United States during the years of 1921-1923, under President Warren Harding. He was not a very active vice president, but he took great pleasure in presiding over the Senate. One day, as he was presiding, one senator angrily told another to go "straight to hell." The offended Senator openly complained to Coolidge as the presiding officer. Coolidge was leafing through the book of rules as he made his complaint. He looked up from the book and replied, "I’ve looked through the rule book. You don’t have to go."