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Calvin Coolidge Says, October 3, 1930

February 17, 2021

Date: October 3, 1930 Location: Northampton, MA (Original document available here) Baseball is our national game. It is peculiarly a local product with the widest popular appeal of any sport. This is because every play can be seen and the game is so easily comprehended that all its fine points can be appreciated. Moreover, while […]

Press Conference, August 2 1927

August 21, 2020

Date: August 2 1927 Location: Rapid City, SD There is no foundation for the reports that it is stated here have been published, if they have been published, so far as I know, that the Geneva Conference will suspend until Fall. My advices are that they will make every effort to reach some agreement and […]

Press Conference, September 25, 1925

June 16, 2020

Date: September 25, 1925 Location: Washington D.C. (Original document available here) I haven’t enough technical information so that I should want to pass judgment on the proposal for making artificial pools for swimming here in the city. That may be entirely practical. One of the things I should want to be certain about was the […]

Press Conference, August 29, 1924

May 21, 2020

Date: August 29, 1924 Location: Plymouth Notch, VT (Original document available here) Good afternoon, gentlemen: The Cabinet meeting didn’t develop much of anything this morning. The Secretary of Agriculture reported that the foot and mouth disease had apparently been stamped out in the West. There is a little danger of it in some of the […]

Press Conference, August 8th, 1924

May 21, 2020

Date: August 8th, 1924 Location: Washington, D.C. (Original document available here) No information has come to me about any danger to the life and property of American citizens in Honduras that warrants our sending any marines or sailors there. In fact, I didn’t know that at the present time there was any change in the […]