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BURLINGTON, Vt. (WCAX) - On July 4th, 1872, Vermont’s own President Calvin Coolidge was born in Plymouth Notch. Coolidge was ...
IDEAS What the next president — and the rest of us — could learn from Calvin Coolidge America’s flinty, unpretentious 30th president was shaped by an austere upbringing in a Vermont hamlet ...
On August 2, 1923, President Warren Harding suddenly died. Vice President Calvin Coolidge took the presidential oath of office, administered by his father, a justice of the peace. Myth has it that ...
John Calvin Coolidge was his name when he entered college, but he subsequently dropped John. On expiration of his terms as county clerk, Coolidge ran for Council in Northampton and was elected.
To a casual observer on July 4, 1924, Calvin Coolidge must have seemed the most fortunate man in the nation. It was his 52nd birthday, and just weeks before he had secured the Republican ...
My high opinion of Calvin Coolidge is shared by a former Massachusetts governor — one I would never have predicted: Michael S. Dukakis.
Vice President Calvin Coolidge was visiting his father in Vermont when they received word in the middle of the night that President Warren G. Harding had died. Coolidge’s father, a notary public ...
But this year marks the 100th anniversary of Coolidge’s accession to the presidency — and it is time to look beyond the caricature to the real man.
The reality is light-years removed from this cardboard character. On Aug. 2, it will be 100 years since the beginning of Calvin Coolidge’s presidency.
PLYMOUTH NOTCH, Vt. — On Aug. 2, 1923, President Warren Harding unexpectedly fell ill and died while visiting San Francisco. Five hours later, America had a new president: Calvin Coolidge, a man ...