Tag Archive for "Navy" | Calvin Coolidge Presidential Foundation

Press Conference, May 8, 1925

June 12, 2020

Date: May 8, 1925 Location: Washington, D.C. (Original document available here) I have a couple of rumors. One is that the President is searching for a man to reorganize the Veterans Bureau and that General Hines is leaving. The other one is a question as to what I can say about the report that General […]

Press Conference, May 6, 1924

June 2, 2020

Date: May 6, 1924 Location: Washington, D.C. (Original document available here) I haven’t had any report except in the most informal way from Secretary Hoover about the preferential rail rates known as Section 28 of the Shipping Bill. I know he thinks there ought to be an extension of time, and that is my opinion. […]

Press Conference, January 23rd, 1925

May 28, 2020

Date: January 23rd, 1925 Location: Washington, D.C. (Original document available here) I don’t think there is anything new that I can say about the French debt. I have indicated several times that I didn’t like to discuss it. Any discussion by me would perhaps be misunderstood, and I think that anything I might say about […]

Press Conference, January 20th, 1925

May 28, 2020

Date: January 20th, 1925 Location: Washington, D.C. (Original document available here) I have just received this morning the report of Director General Davis of the Railroad Administration. The course of procedure here in the office is that reports of that kind go first to the Director of the Budget to see if there is anything […]

Press Conference, January 9, 1925

May 28, 2020

Date: January 9th, 1925 Location: Washington, D.C. (Original document available here) I don’t know of any objection to making public the report of the committee on shipping needs, or either of those committees. The report is rather voluminous. I don’t know whether it is on Mr. Slemp’s desk at the present time or whether he […]