Coolidge Blog

The Mellon Plan: The Legislative Fight for the First Supply-Side Tax Reforms

By The Honorable French Hill Tax reform isn’t easy, but it is possible. Even dramatic tax reform. Today, when many doubt that proposition, it’s useful to look back at another […]

Calvin Coolidge and the Post-Armistice Chlorine Gas Campaign

By Robert M. Klein, M.D., Columbia University Irving Medical Center On May 18, 1924, First Congregational Church in Washington held its regular service. But this Sunday, one important congregant was […]

GRACE: ON THE AIR

GRACE COOLIDGE’S RADIO DEBUT OVER STATION NAA ON DECEMBER 4, 1922 By Jerry L. Wallace Next year is a centennial year for President Calvin Coolidge. But this year marks a […]

The Great 1928 Budget Debate

We tend to project our own assumptions about party positions onto events long past. For example, we assume that Democrats always advocated for increased government spending, at least more so […]

August 11 Naturalization Ceremony at the Notch

August 20, 2014

“[W]hen once our feet have touched this soil, when once we have made this land our home, wherever our place of birth, whatever our race, we are all blended in one common country. All artificial distinctions of lineage and rank are cast aside. We all rejoice in the title of Americans.” Calvin Coolidge

On Monday, August 11, we were honored to host a naturalization ceremony welcoming nineteen immigrants as America’s newest citizens. These immigrants came from sixteen different countries. Judge Colleen A. Brown presided over the ceremony and we were very pleased to work in partnership with U.S. Citizen and Immigration Services. Coolidge Foundation chairman Amity Shlaes welcomed the immigrants and more than 100 others who packed into the Great Room at the Notch to witness the ceremony. This is the first time such a ceremony has been held at Plymouth Notch. Jenny Sayles Harville sang the National Anthem and executive director Matt Denhart gave keynote remarks.

We will host another naturalization ceremony on July 4, 2015, and hope all will join us. In the meantime, please watch our videos of the ceremony (Part One and Part Two), and enjoy the pictures. We have several pictures below in this email. You can find all the pictures from the ceremony HERE.

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