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 ...

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 ...

BURLINGTON, Vt. (WCAX) - On July 4th, 1872, Vermont’s own President Calvin Coolidge was born in Plymouth Notch. Coolidge was ...

We should see Calvin Coolidge as a light that shines dimly from the past but one that — if we’re worthy — could guide us to the future. • Don Feder is a columnist for The Washington Times ...

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 ...

My high opinion of Calvin Coolidge is shared by a former Massachusetts governor — one I would never have predicted: Michael S. Dukakis. ... just 10 months after Coolidge died.

One hundred years ago this morning, Calvin Coolidge became president of the United States. The circumstances were unusual but somehow fitting. President Warren G. Harding had died suddenly the day ...