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Calvin Coolidge Says, April 2, 1931

November 30, 2020

Date: April 2, 1931 Location: Northampton, MA (Original document available here) Knute Rockne is gone. As a football coach he ranked at the head of his profession. In the thirteen years during which he trained the Notre Dame team there were one hundred and five victories and but twelve defeats. Five of his teams never […]

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, November 4, 1927

August 21, 2020

Date: November 4, 1927 Location: Washington, D.C. (Original document available here) There haven’t been any decisions made about appointments. The Attorney General has not consulted with me relative to the oil trial. Senator Quezon and Senator Osmena – he is a member of the Senate – called on me yesterday with the Secretary of War […]

Press Conference, November 20, 1923

August 18, 2020

Date: November 20, 1923 Location: Washington, D.C. (Original document available here) I notice some of the representatives of the press take advantage of an opportunity to sit down. Any of you that wants can have my chair. Mr. President does that go for anybody but newspaper men? No. I have here an inquiry about 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 […]