Tag Archive for "Nicaragua" | Calvin Coolidge Presidential Foundation

Press Conference, November 6, 1928

September 8, 2020

Date: November 6, 1928 Location: En route to Washington From Northampton (Original document available here) No final determination has been made about the Ambassador to England. While the probabilities seem to indicate that Ambassador Houghton will be chosen Senator, I suppose every prudent man knows that every election is uncertain. It may be that he […]

Press Conference, February 4, 1927

August 31, 2020

Date: February 4, 1927 Location: Washington, D.C. (Original document available here) I doubt if I have any information that the members of this conference are not already possessed of relative to the Harrison tax resolution in the Senate. I saw that he had made some motion in relation to taxation. I never had a chance […]

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 […]

Press Conference, November 23, 1928

August 27, 2020

Date: November 23, 1928 Location: Washington, D.C. (Original document available here) I haven’t seen what the State Department may have said in their comment on the Cumberland report on Nicaragua. I did notice from a hasty glance at the report that there was some suggestion in it of some supervision of the finances of Nicaragua […]

Press Conference, July 24, 1928

August 26, 2020

Date: July 24, 1928 Location: Superior, WI (Original document available here) The situation in Nicaragua seems to be progressing very satisfactorily. The operations of Sandino apparently have entirely ceased and the different bands of bandits have pretty much surrendered. It is reported, as I understand it, that Sandino has left Nicaragua. There is no absolute […]