Tag Archive for "China" | Calvin Coolidge Presidential Foundation

Press Conference, November 6, 1928

September 8, 2020

Date: November 6, 1928 Location: En route to Washington From Northampton (Original document available here) No final determination has been made about the Ambassador to England. While the probabilities seem to indicate that Ambassador Houghton will be chosen Senator, I suppose every prudent man knows that every election is uncertain. It may be that he […]

Press Conference, February 1, 1927

August 31, 2020

Date: February 1, 1927 Location: Washington, D.C. (Original document available here) I am not able to give the exact number of craft that the Navy has sent to China. We have several around in the Shanghai region. I think as I indicated at a previous conference, we have about 4,000 Americans there and we are […]

Press Conference, July 24, 1928

August 26, 2020

Date: July 24, 1928 Location: Superior, WI (Original document available here) The situation in Nicaragua seems to be progressing very satisfactorily. The operations of Sandino apparently have entirely ceased and the different bands of bandits have pretty much surrendered. It is reported, as I understand it, that Sandino has left Nicaragua. There is no absolute […]

Press Conference, July 27, 1928

August 26, 2020

Date: July 27, 1928 Location: Superior, WI (Original document available here) I don’t know just what the State Department is planning as to a recognition of the Chinese Nationalist Government. Those details are in their hands and they haven’t sent me any information about it. I suppose that making the treaty with a government usually, […]

Press Conference, January 21, 1927

August 24, 2020

Date: January 21, 1927 Location: Washington, D.C. (Original document available here) I have not taken any final action on the Rivers and Harbors bill. It goes to various Departments for their recommendations. So far as they have come in they have all been favorable. I mean on the general proposition of the bill. There are […]