Calvin Coolidge to work jointly with Edward T. Clark, a Massachusetts Republican organizer whom he retained from his vice-presidential staff, as Secretaries to the President (a position equivalent to the modern White House Chief of Staff). Perhaps the most powerful person in Coolidge's Cabinet was Secretary of the Treasury Andrew Mellon, who controlled the administration's financial policies and was regarded by many, including House Minority Leader John Nance Garner, as more powerful than Coolidge himself. Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover also held a prominent place in Coolidge's Cabinet, in part because Coolidge found value in Hoover's ability to win positive publicity with
The Calvin Coolidge Home for Dead Comedians The Calvin Coolidge Home for Dead Comedians The Calvin Coolidge Home for Dead Comedians is a fantasy / weird fiction novella by Bradley Denton. It was first published in "Fantasy and Science Fiction", in June 1988. It republished in Denton's 1994 collection "The Calvin Coolidge Home for Dead Comedians", and his 1998 collection "One Day Closer to Death: Eight Stabs at Immortality"; a French translation was published in 1989. In the afterlife, Leonard finds himself confined to the Calvin Coolidge Home for Dead Comedians, an institution where comedians who were rude, offensive, obscene, and blasphemous are kept until they can