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

Calvin Coolidge Says, April 20, 1931

December 14, 2020

Date: April 20, 1931 Location: Northampton, MA Summary: President Coolidge addresses a common criticism of foreign investment. (Original document available here) Whenever any questions arise as to our relations with countries south of the Rio Grande some one always brings forward the charge that our business enterprises in those regions are engaged in exploiting the […]

Calvin Coolidge Says, August 25, 1930

December 11, 2020

Date: August 25, 1930 Location: Northampton, MA Summary: Coolidge lays out his thinking as to when a revolution is acceptable and when it is not. (Original document available here) The reports of a revolution making headway in Peru are disquieting and discouraging. Revolutions have long been the curse of some sections south of the Rio Grande. […]

Press Conference, November 9, 1928

August 26, 2020

Date: November 9, 1928 Location: Washington, D.C. (Original document available here) My views on farm legislation have been set out in 1923, 1924, 1925, 1926 and 1927 in my Messages to the Congress, to which you can refer if you want to get them in detail. I don’t know of course what my next Message […]

Press Conference, December 17, 1926

July 14, 2020

Date: December 17, 1926 Location: Washington, D.C. (Original document available here) I haven’t made any final plans to go to Trenton, other than to say that I am expecting to go. I suppose some of the press would expect to go along. Well, you will get notice from Mr. Sanders on in in due time. […]

Press Conference, March 26, 1926

July 9, 2020

Date: March 26, 1926 Location: Washington, D.C. (Original document available here) I haven’t very much information about the proposal for the settlement of the Alien Property and German War Claims, or rather the return of the Alien Property and settlement of the German War Claims. I know that the Treasury is working on some plan. […]