President Calvin Coolidge, second from left, with Elvira Machado, wife of Cuban President Gerardo Machado y Morales, who is walking with first lady Grace Coolidge at right, in Havana on Jan. 19, 1928.

Mr. Obama (much like Coolidge in 1928) was optimistic about relations between Cuba and the United States, and said he wanted to put decades of acrimony and retribution behind.

Coolidge traveled to Cuba to address the Sixth Annual International Conference of American States in Havana on Jan. 16, 1928. Coolidge and his wife met with Cuba's President Gerardo Machado, who ...

¶ Pending bills (see THE CONGRESS), and what he would do about them if passed in such-and-such forms, kept President Coolidge busily occupied, conferring, suggesting, protesting, making ...

> The air mail arrived. There weresome letters for the President. One said that Mr. Hoover would like toresign as Secretary of Commerce, when and if Mr. Coolidge desired. Theother letter said that ...

HAVANA — There hasn't been a party like this in Havana since 1928. President and Mrs. Obama arrived back at Cuba's presidential palace Monday night for a once-in-three-lifetimes event: A state ...

The only pronouncement resembling Hoover's description is Coolidge's press statement (mentioned above) in 1928. If this is so, a Coolidge defender might argue that there's a difference between ...

The Coolidge administration opposed the U.S. entry into the League of Nations. It did support the Kellogg-Briand Pact of 1928, which naively outlawed war between nations. Presidential Politics ...

Calvin Coolidge (1872-1933) was the 30th president of the United States of America. He declined to run for re-election in 1928 ( Getty Images ) Nicknamed “Silent Cal,” Coolidge was known for ...