CSPAN2 Key Capitol Hill Hearings October 30, 2015
Lets go ahead and cut out a significant amount in one year and then it makes it a lot easier in the successive years if youll hold the line. Calvin coolidge was incredible at this kind of stuff, and in emily slays book, she goes through a wonderful detail of how he ended up balancing the budget. In those days, the president was paid a pretty good amount for those days, it was about 100,000, but everything came out of their salary. So when the ambassador from france would come for dinner, the dinner came out of coolidges salary. So coolidge would be down in the kitchen after dinner saying i not...