The magazine had asked him to write ten articles for the high sum of $2,000 each, but the magazine had published only six. Summoned by the ex-president to meet at the hotel, the editor knew what question would come, and it did: “I made a contract with you to write ten articles at $2,000 each and I wrote them and you published six, and you haven’t published the other four.” Yes, came the editor’s reply, with the predictable response: the magazine had paid for all ten. “But if they aren’t worth publishing,” Coolidge said, “they oughtn’t to be paid for,” and he pulled out a check for $8,000. The
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