Rather than do more, should a president do less? There was a commander-in-chief who believed in such a model for government. His name was Calvin Coolidge. In many ways Coolidge didn’t seem like a man ...

Col. Sherwood A. Cheney, military aide to President Coolidge for two years, requested a change to more active service. The President announced Col. Blanton Winship, World War veteran, sole unmarri ...

Likewise, Coolidge felt that providing the public with insight into the private life of the president would foster a feeling of trust and familiarity. In 1924, as he made his first outright bid ...

The first time Calvin Coolidge met Gutzon Borglum, the president agreed to the artist's scheme to mint commemorative coins. With the coins, Borglum hoped to raise funds to carve a mountain into ...

His predecessor, President Calvin Coolidge, and his administration took a series of steps that arguably set up our economy for a serious recession, masked by the so-called “Roaring 20s ...

President Coolidge nominated Professor Alfred J. Pearson (modern languages) of Drake University, la., to be the Minister to Poland succeeding Hugh Gibson. ¶Asa M. Wallace, editor of The Herald of ...

The vision for such a museum began in 1960 when John Coolidge (the President’s son), former Vermont Governor Deane C. Davis, Dartmouth Librarian Edward Connery Lathem, and Vermont Historic Sites ...