The End of an Era

"Losing the Philippines and Central America, causing hundreds of thousands of Americans to starve to death and millions to go bankrupt during an economic crisis, with tens of billions of dollars vanishing in an instant—why on earth are we still tolerating such a man sitting in the presidential chair?"

On January 17, 1927, while the global situation remained calm and peaceful, a massive number of newspapers across the United States suddenly began reporting on the "contributions" of President Coolidge since taking office, while successively denouncing him as a sinner against America and ranking him as the worst of the top three worst presidents in American history.

The present United States had completely diverged from historical trajectories. President Coolidge, who had earned a good reputation in history, was now being cursed by all Americans, and the Coolidge era was rated as the worst era since the founding of the United States.

Although President Coolidge had promptly announced his withdrawal from the upcoming presidential election, the anger of the Americans was not so easily appeased.

On January 18, the US Congress officially initiated impeachment proceedings against President Coolidge, citing the damage inflicted upon the United States by the erroneous decisions of his administration.

According to post-incident investigations, this motion had been initiated by the Democratic Party. The catalyst was President Coolidge's weakness during the assassination of Roosevelt, which left the Democrats profoundly dissatisfied with the Republican Party to which President Coolidge belonged.

The Republican Party could do nothing about the Democratic impeachment; after all, the dissatisfaction of the American public was solid and real, something that could not be altered merely by fabricating data.

However, the Republican Party clearly had a better candidate. Secretary of Commerce Herbert Clark Hoover held the immense goodwill of the American public due to his extensive funding