October 29, 2020
Title: Fifth Annual Message Date: December 6, 1927 Location: Washington D.C. Context: Speech on the state of the union in most aspects, highlighting tax reduction, national defense, American Indians, prohibition, […]
Read MoreTags: Agriculture, Air Mail, Alien Property, American Indian, Coal, Commercial Aviation, Constructive Economy, Cuban Mail, Department of Labor, Education, Farm Loan System, Flood Control, foreign relations, Historical Celebrations, Inland Navigation, Merchant marine, Muscle Shoals, National Defense, Negro, Panama Canal, Petroleum Conservation, Prohibition, public buildings, railroad consolidation, Roads, tariff, tax reduction, Territories, veterans
October 23, 2020
Date: March 23, 1928 Location: Washington, DC (Original document available here) I don’t know of any connection between the possibility of the construction of one or two new vessels by […]
Read MoreOctober 23, 2020
Date: November 8, 1927 Location: Washington, DC (Original document available here) Mr. Stearns is visiting us at the White House. He came in this morning. Today is his birthday and […]
Read MoreTags: Annual Message to the Congress, Armistice Day, Charles Lindberg, Federal estate Tax, Flood Control, Governor Lennington Small, Henry Stimson, Henry Wickham Steed, Interstate Commission, Ludlow, Mayor William Thompson, Mr. Frank Stearns, New England Floods, Plymouth Vermont, Vermont Fire
October 6, 2020
Date: October 11, 1927 Location: Washington, DC (Original document available here) I haven’t any information as to the intention of Senator Butler, either to “be a candidate or not to […]
Read MoreTags: $18 billion national debt, Alexander P. Moore, development of the air forces, Farm Legislation, Flood Control, National Defense, payment of back taxes;, Senator William M. Butler, Surpluses, tax reduction, United States Chamber of Commerce, Veteran and dependent pensions, Visiting Japanese naval officers, War Debt
October 5, 2020
Date: September 16, 1927 Location: Washington, DC (Original document available here) THE PRESIDENT: I am not certain whether I can attend the International Exhibition of Paintings which is to be […]
Read MoreTags: art exhibition, cotton market, defense spending, Department of Agriculture, Flood Control, Mississippi River Commission, Mississippi Valley relief, price of kerosene, tax reduction