Tag Archive for "defense" | Calvin Coolidge Presidential Foundation

Calvin Coolidge Says, July 22, 1930

December 31, 2020

Date: July 22, 1930 Location: Northampton, MA (Original document available here) On the whole we have done well to ratify the naval treaty. It is a most encouraging symptom of international sanity. No doubt our admirals can find some objections to it. But so do the admirals of Britain and Japan. It takes at least two […]

Press Conference, February 5, 1929

September 2, 2020

Date: February 5, 1929 Location: Washington, D.C. (Original document available here) Nothing special has developed in relation to the Judgeship of the District of Columbia, with the possible exception of the elimination of one or two names that have been suggested. I don’t know just what is contained in the present bill relative to vocational […]

Press Conference, September 23, 1927

August 18, 2020

Date: September 23, 1927 Location: Washington, D.C. (Original document available here) I do not think there are any appointments that have been made that have not already been announced. General Lord and I did not discuss the matter of a possible tax reduction this morning. I do not know how much it would be possible […]

Press Conference, September 28, 1926

July 30, 2020

Date: September 28, 1926 Location: Washington, D.C. (Original document available here) THE PRESIDENT: As is quite likely to occur when the Government is running along fairly well, there does not seem to be very much news. I just called Mr. Sanders in to ask if he thought of anything that might be helpful to the […]

Press Conference, October 1, 1926

July 30, 2020

Date: October 1, 1926 Location: Washington, D.C. (Original document available here) THE PRESIDENT: I haven’t any information about the proposed plan to market German railway bonds in this country. That will be very largely a question for private investors to determine. I did not understand that any one had suggested that the United States Government […]