Tag Archive for "Treaty" | Calvin Coolidge Presidential Foundation

Calvin Coolidge Says, May 19, 1931

January 22, 2021

Date: May 19, 1931 Location: Northampton, MA (Original document available here) Apparently it will again be demonstrated that the worst things do not happen. Much anxiety has arisen over international differences concerning the proposed customs union between Germany and Austria. A serious impasse was feared when the question came up for discussion among the powers […]

Calvin Coolidge Says, July 7, 1930

December 1, 2020

Date: July 7, 1930 Location: Northampton, MA (Original document available here) Some of our people are expressing regret because we did not appear at the London conference with the largest navy in the world. If we had done so they assume we would have been able at once to dictate to the other nations a treaty […]

Press Conference, December 7, 1928

August 27, 2020

Date: December 7, 1928 Location: Washington, D.C. (Original document available here) I do not know whether or not the Committee meeting of the Foreign Relations Committee of the Senate this morning was public. However, I think the attitude of the Committee was favorable to the treaty. The thing that bothered the Committee most was whether […]

Press Conference, November 20, 1923

August 18, 2020

Date: November 20, 1923 Location: Washington, D.C. (Original document available here) I notice some of the representatives of the press take advantage of an opportunity to sit down. Any of you that wants can have my chair. Mr. President does that go for anybody but newspaper men? No. I have here an inquiry about the […]