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Calvin Coolidge Says, July 4, 1930

January 4, 2021

Date: July 4, 1930 Location: Northampton, MA (Original document available here) After a session of about fifteen months the Congress has finally adjourned. It will be subjected to considerable criticism which will be largely useless. With the direct primaries in most states and the popular election of Senators, the present perversion of legislation is unavoidable. […]

Fifth Annual Message

October 29, 2020

Title: Fifth Annual Message Date: December 6, 1927 Location: Washington D.C. Members of the Congress: It is gratifying to report that for the fourth consecutive year the state of the Union in general is good. We are at peace. The country as a whole has had a prosperity never exceeded. Wages are at their highest […]

Press Conference, September 20, 1927

August 27, 2020

Date: September 20, 1927 Location: Washington, D.C. (Original document available here) THE PRESIDENT: I suppose you are all members of the Press Club the same as I am. I want to say that I enjoyed the opening of the theatre very much last evening. We have a very beautiful building on that corner. Perhaps I […]

Press Conference, August 24, 1926

July 14, 2020

Date: August 24, 1926 Location: White Pine Camp – Paul Smiths, New York (Original document available here) I haven’t had any conference with any one concerning a choice of nominee for Governor of New York. I don’t expect to. I think they have a convention in New York for the purpose of nominating a Governor. […]

Press Conference, October 19, 1926

July 10, 2020

Date: October 19, 1926 Location: Washington, D.C. (Original document available here) The only time that I visited Wakefield, Va., the birthplace of George Washington, was when I went down the Potomac on the Mayflower and then went to shore in a boat. So I am not in a position to have much of any personal […]