Tag Archive for "International Law" | Calvin Coolidge Presidential Foundation

Calvin Coolidge Says, January 3, 1931

December 29, 2020

Date: January 3, 1931 Location: Northampton, MA (Original document available here) Thousands of our citizens and about one-twenty-fifth of our national wealth are in foreign countries. For many generations international law has recognized that a government has an interest in its citizens and their property and is under a moral duty to protect them wherever they […]

Press Conference, August 5, 1927

August 21, 2020

Date: August 5, 1927 Location: Rapid City, SD It hadn’t occurred to me that I needed to think yet what I would be doing after I retired from the Presidency. My work has usually come fast enough so that I haven’t had to go out looking for it. I have no doubt that will be […]

Press Conference, July 26, 1927

August 21, 2020

Date: July 26, 1927 Location: Rapid City, SD I don’t know whether Secretary Wilbur is coming here. I am not exactly sure that he will come. I have expected him to, but undoubtedly he feels that it is necessary to stay in Washington at the present time on account of the Naval Limitation of Arms […]

Press Conference, July 19, 1927

August 21, 2020

Date: July 19, 1927 Location: Rapid City, SD I haven’t made any plans for visiting any places outside of South Dakota. As I explained at one or two of the conferences, I have had a great many invitations, all of which I wish I might accept. It would be very pleasurable, I know. I think […]

Press Conference, September 21, 1926

July 30, 2020

Date: September 21, 1926 Location: Washington, D.C. (Original document available here) I am glad to extend greetings to the augmented force of the conference. I hope those of you that were not with us had as pleasant a time as I did. There isn’t much comment that I can make relative to the reservations that […]