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Press Conference, August 7, 1928

February 23, 2021

Date: August 7, 1928 Location: Superior, WI (Original document available here) I am expecting to go over to Duluth some day. I think they are planning a sort of a drive for me around here. I don’t know just when I shall go. I have been so busy out in the Lodge catching fish – there are […]

Annual Luncheon of Associated Press

February 22, 2021

Title: Annual Luncheon of Associated Press Date: April 22, 1924 Location: New York, NY (Original document available here) The gathering and publication of news has a deeper significance than is sometimes realized. No large enterprise can exist for itself alone. It ministers to some great need, it performs some great service, not for itself, but for others; or, […]

Press Conference, August 3, 1928

February 19, 2021

Date: August 3, 1928 Location: Superior, Wisconson (Original document available here) I am glad that the French and British have made an agreement relative to the limitation of auxiliary warships, if that is true. I have no information concerning the terms of the agreement, so I could not express any option as to whether it would interest […]

Address on the Eleventh Regular Meeting of the Business Organization on the Government

February 18, 2021

Title: Address on the Eleventh Regular Meeting of the Business Organization on the Government Date: June 21, 1926 Location: Memorial Continental Hall, Washington, D.C. (Original document available here) The more these business meetings of the United States Government increase in number the more I am impressed with their surpassing importance. They are held for the purpose of discussing […]

Calvin Coolidge Says, October 15, 1930

February 18, 2021

Date: October 15, 1930 Location: Worcester, MA (Original document available here) We have in this country a certain type of officeholder, fortunately not large, who are always out with square and compass seeking to find out what the political effect will be of every action they take. They do not need to make such elaborate […]