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Calvin Coolidge’s First Presidential Broadcast

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 […]

A Supreme Court Justice’s Private Views of Coolidge

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 […]

Joseph Fountain: Witness to the Inauguration

by Paul D. Houle Joseph Fountain, the twenty-four-year-old editor of the Springfield Reporter, scooped every reporter in Vermont—indeed, in the world—with his account of the presidential inauguration of Calvin Coolidge. […]

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: Our First Radio President

January 16, 2015

Please download our good friend Jerry Wallace’s book Calvin Coolidge: Our First Radio President which explores the many ways in which President Coolidge pioneered in the new medium of radio!

CC~BOOK~Our First Radio President~Print Copy (July 2008) (PDF)

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