John Ferrell Archive | Calvin Coolidge Presidential Foundation

Press Conference, August 24, 1923

April 20, 2020

Date: August 24, 1923 Location: Washington, D.C. (Original document available here) One of the first questions that I see here is relative to the time when we may resume diplomatic […]

Tags: aircraft, coal commission, Filipino, Governor Pinchot, Interstate Commerce Commission, Japanese, machinery, Mexico

Address at the Sixteenth Regular Meeting of the Business Organization of the Government

April 20, 2020

Title: Address at the Sixteenth Regular Meeting of the Business Organization of the Government Date: January 28, 1929 Location: Washington, D.C. Context: President Coolidge covers the virtues of thrift and […]

Tags: Budget, Business, economy, Federal Government, Role of Government

Address of President Coolidge before the General Convention of the Episcopal Church

April 20, 2020

Title: Address of President Coolidge before the General Convention of the Episcopal Church Date: October 10, 1928 Location: Washington, D.C. Context: Speech to the general convention of the Episcopal Church […]

Tags: Charity, Devotion, Faith, Materialism, Missionary, Religion, Spiritual Advancement

Progress Towards Freedom

April 20, 2020

Title: Progress Towards Freedom Date: February 12, 1923 Location: Tuskegee, AL Context: At the dedication of a government hospital for colored veterans of World War I This day and this […]

Tags: Abraham Lincoln, African Americans, Civil Rights, Responsibilities of Citizenship, The Civil War, World War One

Address at the Thirteenth Regular Meeting of the Business Organization of the Government

April 17, 2020

Title: Address at the Thirteenth Regular Meeting of the Business Organization of the Government Date: June 10, 1927 Location: Washington, D.C. Context: Addressed to members of the Government’s Business Organization […]

Tags: Budget, Business, economy, The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927