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Title: Address at the Observance of the Tenth Anniversary of the Armistice under the Auspices of the American Legion Date: November 11, 1928 Location: The Washington Auditorium, Washington D.C. Fellow Countrymen: We meet to give thanks for 10 more years of peace. Amid the multitude of bounties which have been bestowed upon us, we count that our […]

Press Conference, October 11, 1927

October 6, 2020

Date: October 11, 1927 Location: Washington, DC (Original document available here) I haven’t any information as to the intention of Senator Butler, either to “be a candidate or not to be a candidate again for the Senate. Any authoritative statement about that, I suppose would come from him. There has been sent out for release […]

Press Conference, February 24, 1928

September 22, 2020

Date: February 24, 1928 Location: Washington, DC (Original document available here) I talked with Mayor Thompson concerning the problem of flood control. There was nothing special that I said to him other than what is contained in my annual message to the Congress. We talked more especially about the financing of the cost of flood […]

Address of President Coolidge at the Dedication of the Liberty Memorial at Kansas City, Missouri

September 16, 2020

Title: Address of President Coolidge at the Dedication of the Liberty Memorial at Kansas City, Missouri Date: November 11, 1926 Location: Kansas City, MO Context: Coolidge speaks at the dedication of a memorial for American WWI veterans Fellow Countrymen: It is with a mingling of sentiments that we come to dedicate this memorial. Erected in […]