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During his full term, Coolidge was hardly bedridden with grief, he worked to cut taxes liaised with his cabinet held regular press conferences.
柯立芝在任期内没有因悲伤而卧床不起，他努力削减税收, 与内阁保持联系, 定期召开新闻发布会。
He was even capable of dry wit,
他甚至会说冷幽默，
such as, when he responded to a woman who said she'd made a bet
比如，当他回应一个说打了赌的女人时
that she could make him say more than three words at dinner with you lose,
她能让他在和你共进晚餐时多说三个字，
In short, he was functioning, but functioning isn't the tame as actually living?
简而言之，他是工作的，但正常的工作不应该是活生生的吗?
Somewhere deep beneath that cold mysterious exterior, a tiny spark seemed to have gone out.
在那冰冷而神秘的外表下，似乎有一颗小小的火花熄灭了。
In its place, came nothing but a weariness so vast that it eclipsed everything.
取而代之的是一种巨大的疲倦，使一切都黯然失色。
The loss of Calvin junior affected Grace, just as badly.
小加尔文的去世同样严重地影响了格蕾丝。
In 1927, she appears to have had an affair possibly with someone, connected to the White House.
1927年，她似乎与某个与白宫有关的人有过婚外情。
There's evidence that Coolidge found out.
柯立芝发现了一些证据。
And so we come to the final act of Coolidge's presidency.
这就是柯立芝总统任期的最后一幕。
In the summer of 1927, silent Cal passed a note to reporters who'd come to document, his family vacation.
1927年夏天，沉默的柯立芝给前来记录他的家庭假期的记者递了一张纸条。
It simply read I do not choose to run for president in 1928.
上面只写着我不会竞选1928年的总统。
At the time, the anouncement caused shockwaves.
当时，这一声明引起了轩然大波。
To this very day, what caused Coolidge to pull out is still hotly debated?
直到今天也令人匪夷所思，是什么原因导致柯立芝退出激烈的争论呢?
But whatever the rational reason, it seems doubtful that the image of Calvin junior slipping away wasn't somewhere in the back of his mind, haunting him as he would for the rest of his life.
但不管出于什么理性原因，小加尔文的形象是否在他的脑海中某个地方消失了，似乎值得怀疑，因为他的余生都在困扰着他。
At the time, Coolidge handed the baton over to his former secretary of commerce Herbertova.
当时，柯立芝把指挥棒交给了他的前商务部长赫伯特瓦。
He had every reason to think history would smile kindly on him.
他有充分的理由认为历史会对他和善地微笑。
He'd overseen a prolonged economic boom that lifted Americans out of poverty.
他领导了长期的经济繁荣，使美国人摆脱了贫困。
He'd pushed the international Kellogg Bryant Pact, committing nations to avoiding war.
他推动了国际凯洛格-布莱恩特协议，承诺各国避免战争。
It forged a new less aggressive policy towards Latin America.
它对拉丁美洲制定了一项不那么咄咄逼人的新政策。
It kept the us out of the league of nations.
它使我们无法加入国际联盟。
He achieved a balanced budget.
他实现了预算平衡。
In fact, Coolidge, in 1928, was so popular that republicans tried to get his name on the party ticket.
事实上，柯立芝在1928年非常受欢迎，以至于共和党人试图把他的名字列入该党的竞选名单。
Refusal to run, be damned, silent Cal had to practically beg them to instead nominate Hoover.
拒绝参选，沉默寡言的柯立芝几乎不得不乞求他们提名胡佛。
Not that the GOP needed to have worried who was elected in a landslide in a large part by playing off of Coolidge's legacy.
共和党并不需要担心谁会在很大程度上通过利用柯立芝的成果而获得压倒性的胜利。
So yeah, it seems fair to say that as Coolidge left Washington in March of 1929
所以，可以说柯立芝在1929年3月离开华盛顿
that he felt sure of being remembered, but of course, that's not what happened that October.
他确信自己会被记住，但当然，那并不是十月份发生的事情。
The collapse of the financial system and subsequent great depression killed the 30th president's reputation.
金融体系的崩溃和随后的大萧条扼杀了这位第30任总统的声誉。
People charged that he'd seen the collapse coming, when he decided not to run for re-election
当他决定不竞选连任时，人们指责他预见到了经济崩溃的到来
that his policies had single-handedly created the economic catastrophe.
他的政策一手造成了这场经济灾难。
With nearly a century of hindsight, we can see these charges weren't true.
在近一个世纪的后见之明中，我们可以看到这些指控都不是真的。
There were so many intertwining causes of the depression that it's doubtful anyone could have averted it.
造成大萧条的原因有很多相互交织的因素，很难相信有人能避免它。
Still, Coolidge could have done more and the public seemed to recognize this.
尽管如此，柯立芝本可以做得更多，公众似乎也认识到了这一点。
Just like Harding years, earlier Coolidge's post-presidency reputation was soon utterly trashed.
就像哈定时代一样，早期柯立芝卸任总统后的声誉很快就被彻底毁了。
Tragically, he wouldn't live long enough to see his rehabilitation.
不幸的是，他活不到经济复苏的那一天。
Calvin Coolidge died of a heart attack on January 5th, 1933, as America stood on the cusp between two eras
1933年1月5日，卡尔文·柯立芝死于心脏病发作，当时美国正处于两个时代的转折点
behind lay the wreckage of the roaring twenties and the prosperity Coolidge had been so proud of,
之前是兴旺二十年代柯立芝引以为豪的繁荣的废墟，
ahead lay the uncharted waters of the new deal of FDR,
之后是罗斯福新政的未知水域，
an era that had no place for men, like silent Cal.
那个时代没有人的容身之地，比如沉默的卡尔。
Today, Calvin Coolidge is arguably the least remembered 20th century president.
今天，卡尔文·柯立芝可以说是20世纪最不为人所知的总统。
Washington has no significant memorial to him.
华盛顿没有纪念他的重要纪念物。
There is no presidential library,
没有总统图书馆,
even the Coolidge auditorium in the library of Congress is named for a patron
甚至国会图书馆的柯立芝礼堂也以赞助人的名字命名
who just happened to share his last name.
碰巧跟他姓一样的人。
In scholarly rankings, too.
在学术排名上也是如此。
Coolidge remains obscure,often appearing right in the middle of the pack.
柯立芝仍然默默无闻，经常出现在中间。
He's surrounded by other non-entities, like Grover Cleveland and James A Garfield.
他身边都是些无足轻重的人，比如格罗弗·克利夫兰和詹姆斯·加菲尔德。
And yet despite his near invisibility,silent Cal has still managed to have an outsized influence on the modern world.
然而，尽管他几乎不为人知，沉默的卡尔仍然努力对现代世界产生了巨大的影响。
51 years after Coolidge left the White House, another president c ame in with similar thoughts on government known as Ronald Reagan.
柯立芝离开白宫51年后，另一位对政府有着相似想法的总统——罗纳德·里根入主白宫。
One of his first acts was to hang a portrait of Coolidge in the cabinet office to help inspire his own conservative program.
他的第一个行动就是在内阁办公室挂了一幅柯立芝的肖像，以帮助激发他自己的保守计划。
It's a sweet irony of history, isn't it？
这真是一段温和的讽刺历史，不是吗?
Perhaps the most obscure 20th century president inspiring one of the most iconic,
也许是20世纪最不起眼的总统激励了最具代表性的总统之一，
but then that's Calvin Coolidge, a man who could sometimes be small, sometimes great, sometimes playful, sometimes depressed,
但那是卡尔文·柯立芝，一个有时渺小，有时伟大，有时顽皮，有时沮丧的人，
but what he and his presidency never were was anything less than fascinating.
但他和他的总统任期从来都是迷人的。
So I really hope you found this video interesting, if you did.
所以我真的希望你觉得这个视频有趣，如果你喜欢的话。
Please do hit that thumbs up button below, don't forget to subscribe,
请点击下方的大拇指按钮，不要忘记订阅，
and as always thank you for watching.
和往常一样，感谢大家的收看。
