Presidential Fight Club: NE Regional 3- Calvin Coolidge vs. Chester A. Arthur




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Summary: Calvin Coolidge vs. Chester A. Arthur Stats of Fighters: Name: Calvin Coolidge Height: 5’10 Weight: 150 Military experience: None Special abilities: Extreme caution. Coolidge would not make any hasty moves in a fight. However, he might not make any moves. He was chronically shy and feared meeting strangers well into adulthood. Coolidge’s health was little better. He suffered from chronic respiratory ailments. As president he underwent frequent asthma attacks, hay fever, bronchitis, and stomach upset. Coolidge coughed so much that he feared he had tuberculosis. Name: Chester A. Arthur Height: 6’2 Weight: 225 Military experience: Brigadier General, Quartermaster General and Inspector General of the New York Militia before and during the Civil War. Special abilities: Master manipulator. He was a fixture in America’s post-Civil War corrupt political machine politics, gaining power through wheeling and dealing and doling out favors. Before becoming Garfield’s vice president, he ran the New York Custom House and could choose political candidates by throwing donations and volunteers at them. Even as a child he could order others to do his bidding.