April 12, 2024
Date: November 3, 1920 Location: Boston, MA Context: Speech celebrating Coolidge’s election as vice president of the United States of America Mr. President, Gentlemen of the Boston City Club, It […]
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December 20, 2023
By Jerry Wallace M. C. Murphy, Calvin Coolidge: The Presidency and Philosophy of a Progressive Conservative A new biography of Calvin Coolidge is certainly worth your attention. Mark C. […]
Read MoreNovember 29, 2023
By Jerry L. Wallace The clock in the U.S. House Chamber pointed to half past noon.[1] Congress had assembled for a joint session. Standing at the clerk’s desk in front […]
Read MoreOctober 26, 2023
By Jed Donahue image courtesy of Apple Studios It’s not often that Calvin Coolidge appears as a character in a Hollywood blockbuster. But that’s what he does—briefly—in Martin Scorsese’s new […]
Read MoreOctober 11, 2023
By John William Sullivan One of President Calvin Coolidge’s harshest critics—in private, at least—was Supreme Court justice Louis Brandeis. Both men had made their names in Massachusetts: Brandeis as […]
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