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 […]

Scenes from our Re-enactment of the 1923 Homestead Inaugural

August 20, 2014

“Calvin Coolidge took the Presidential oath in his father’s home and by his father’s hand with only the awed faces of a tiny group of witnesses to share the solemnity.”Donald Tobin

We would like to thank all our friends who participated in the re-enactment of the 1923 Homestead Inaugural, including Jennifer Sayles Harville, President Coolidge’s great-granddaughter, who represented First Lady Grace Coolidge, Coolidge impersonatorJim Cooke, who narrated and administered the oath as Colonel John Coolidge, historian David Pietrusza, who played the President’s Secretary Mr. Geiser, David Harville who played Porter Dale, and our good friend Bill Jenney, Historic Site Administrator, who did a stand up job playing W.A. Perkins, the husband of the telephone station operator, who brought word of Harding’s death to Plymouth Notch from Bridgewater, VT.  Matthew Denhart, Foundation Executive Director, stood in for President Coolidge. Thank you to all those who attended, it was a great audience!

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