Time20d
National Affairs: Death of Coolidge
Into the President’s ear he whispered the news: “Mr. Coolidge has just died of heart failure.” After a stunned moment, the President pushed back his chair, laid down his napkin, strode to ...
Trump marks contrast from Biden with press conferences in first week
President Trump held two press conferences on his first two days in office, highlighting the contrast between him and former President Biden, who largely avoided press questions amid scrutiny of his ...
The Boston Globe21d
What the next president — and the rest of us — could learn from Calvin Coolidge
when President Warren G. Harding died in San Francisco. The hamlet’s only phone sat in the general store across the street from the Coolidge family home. When the news made it to the nearest ...
A century ago, Kansans celebrated by introducing Wheat Girl to the president. Madness followed.
On Kansas Day in 1925, a 19-year-old farm girl named Vada Watson was whisked to the White House to present President Calvin ...
Trump’s attempt to end birthright citizenship would overturn more than a century of precedent
U.S. President Donald Trump has said since his first administration that he wants to end birthright citizenship, a ...
CBS News16d
U.S. presidents who weren't inaugurated outside the Capitol in Washington, D.C.
Harding's unexpected August 1923 death following an apparent heart attack, President Calvin Coolidge was sworn in at the Coolidge family home in Plymouth Notch, Vermont. President Lyndon Baines ...