Tag Archive for "Tariffs" | Calvin Coolidge Presidential Foundation

Calvin Coolidge Says, July 11, 1930

December 31, 2020

Date: July 11, 1930 Location: Northampton, MA (Original document available here) Some foreign nations seem alarmed at our increases of duties on imports. Such alarm is not justified. On the whole, the increases are moderate and generally intended only to equalize the difference between foreign and domestic costs of production. It ought to be remembered that […]

Press Conference, October 21, 1927

October 8, 2020

Date: October 21, 1927 Location: Washington, DC (Original document available here) I haven’t any information when the committee that I think is working under the U. S. Chamber of Commerce, headed by former Secretary Nagel, is going to make any report relative to agriculture. I understood from him when he came in to see me […]

Press Conference, June 16, 1925

October 7, 2020

Date: June 16, 1925 Location: Washington, DC (Original document available here) I have an inquiry here about the Colorado River. I think I made a public statement about that last fall some time. I don’t know of anything that I could add to it. I haven’t got that statement before me, but if any one […]

Press Conference, September 13, 1927

October 5, 2020

Date: September 13, 1927 Location: Washington, DC (Original document available here) PRESIDENT: Glad to see you all back. It has not been possible to confer with very many people since I came back to Washington on the matter of the need of a special session. So far as I have been able to get any […]

Press Conference, October 2, 1928

September 2, 2020

Date: October 2, 1928 Location: Washington, D.C. (Original document available here) There have been and probably will continue to be efforts to make some arrangement by which the taxpayers of America may pay the German reparations. That isn’t looked on with any favor in this country, nor do we see that it has any connection […]