Tag Archive for "Latin America" | Calvin Coolidge Presidential Foundation

Press Conference, July 29, 1927

August 21, 2020

Date: July 29, 1927 Location: Rapid City, SD I think the press has all the information that has come to me relative to the Naval Conference at Geneva. The proposals that have been made by the representatives of Great Britain seem to us to call for the building of a much larger navy than we […]

Press Conference, February 6th, 1925

May 28, 2020

Date: February 6th, 1925 Location: Washington, D.C. (Original document available here) I have several inquiries here about General Mitchell. I don’t think there is any comment that I can make about that. I haven’t any explicit and definite information of any action that may be necessary to improve the service. The account of his testimony […]

Journalism in the New World

April 17, 2020

Title: Journalism in the New World Date: April 8, 1926 Location: Washington, D.C. Context: To delegates to the First Pan American Congress of Journalists This is the First Pan American Congress of Journalists. In the number of countries represented and in the extent of territory embraced, it is without doubt one of the most important […]

Address of President Coolidge Before the Pan American Conference on Arbitration and Conciliation

April 10, 2020

Title: Address of President Coolidge Before the Pan American Conference on Arbitration and Conciliation Date: December 10, 1928 Location: Washington, D.C. Context: Coolidge stresses the importance of diplomacy and resolution in international affairs Gentlemen of the Conference: It is to no ordinary occasion that I am privileged as President of the United States to bid […]

José de San Martin, Latin-American Liberator

April 8, 2020

Title: José de San Martin, Latin-American Liberator Date: October 28, 1925 Location: Washington, D.C. Context: At the dedication of a monument to General José de San Martin given by Argentina to the United States Great men belong to humanity. They are the incarnation of the truth. Although they are almost always developed by local circumstances, […]