What do Presidents Coolidge (R) and Cleveland (D) have in common? A specific use of veto power

From the latest Calvin Coolidge Presidential Foundation newsletter:

"Cal and Grover: A Tradition of Restraint

One question probed at the Foundation’s recent Library of Congress conference was a basic one: what culture made the Republican Calvin Coolidge? Where did Coolidge get his model of restraint? One surprising answer may be: from a Democratic president, Grover Cleveland. Cleveland, a former governor of New York, served as president twice in nonconsecutive terms, once while Coolidge was in high school (1885 to 1889) and once as Coolidge was finishing college and embarking on his career as a lawyer (1893 to 1897). As Troy Senik’s new biography, A Man of Iron, shows, Cleveland dealt with many of the same challenges that would later confront President Coolidge—and demonstrated restraint could succeed both as policy and with the electorate.

Cleveland’s primary tool for restraining government expansion was the presidential veto. Cleveland vetoed 414 pieces of legislation, a record that makes Coolidge’s one-and-a-half term veto level—50—look downright moderate. Given Cleveland’s habit of saying “no,” it’s especially striking that the nation rewarded Cleveland with a second term in 1892. ..."