August 13, 2024
Date: October 29, 1915 Context: Coolidge also writes about the campaign in his Autobiography, “In the campaign for election I toured the state with Mr. McCall, making open-air speeches from […]
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Date: October 29, 1920 Context: Thanks to a stampede on the floor of the 1920 Republican National Convention, Coolidge was nominated for the vice presidency, while Senator Warren Harding received […]
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Date: December 5, 1921 Context: On the vice president’s stationery, Coolidge wordsmiths a headstone for the grave of Abigail Coolidge, his younger sister, who had passed away in 1890. The […]
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Date: November 12, 1913 Context: In his Autobiography, Coolidge writes, “It had been my intention to retire at the end of my second term [in the Senate], but the President […]
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Date: April 18, 1930 Context: John graduated from Amherst in the spring of 1928. By the fall of 1928, he started as a freight clerk at the New Haven and […]
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