Tag Archive for "Navy" | Calvin Coolidge Presidential Foundation

Press Conference, March 27, 1928

October 23, 2020

Date: March 27, 1928 Location: Washington, DC (Original document available here) I haven’t in mind at present making any further representations to Congress on the subject of the Navy bill. I don’t see that anything is likely to arise in relation to that which would call for any further expression of opinion to the Congress. […]

Press Conference, February 15, 1929

August 31, 2020

Date: February 15, 1929 Location: Washington, D.C. (Original document available here) Within two or three weeks I conferred with some of the Senators relative to railroad consolidation legislation. They thought at that time it might be possible to secure the passage of a bill at this session. I do not think that later developments have […]

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, December 2, 1927

August 28, 2020

Date: Tuesday, May 15, 1928 Location: Washington, D.C. (Original document available here) I expect that some program for farther cruiser construction will be presented to the incoming Congress. We have only provided for the construction of 8 cruisers since I have been President and a good many of our cruisers I think are of old […]

Press Conference, January 14, 1927

August 27, 2020

Date: January 14, 1927 Location: Washington, D.C. (Original document available here) Chairman O’Connor of the shipping board came in this morning to talk to me about the possibility of transferring to the Shipping Board some of the transports that are used by the Army and Navy. I understood his idea to be that if the […]