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How to deal with big egos

by HARVEY MACKAY
| May 10, 2026 1:00 AM

After U.S. President Calvin Coolidge retired, a newspaper reporter went to see him at his home in Vermont. As they sat talking, the reporter said, "It must make you proud to see all these people coming by here just to look at you sitting on the porch. It shows that although you are a former president, you are not forgotten. Just look at those cars going by!"

"Not as many as yesterday," replied Coolidge. "There were 163 then."

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