October 18, 2012 — By visiting the Coolidge Museum between now and May 2013, you can see President Coolidge’s picture taken on the White House lawn with the 1925 Washington Senators – the baseball team, not the elected officials. The picture is on display to honor a baseball team that is having a great season, the Washington Nationals. They…
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General Pershing and President Coolidge
October 4, 2012 — Two powerful men of the early twentieth century met and interacted. General of the Armies John Joseph ‘Black Jack’ Pershing, (1860-1948) and President Calvin Coolidge (1872-1933). Pershing, the most illustrious military man of his times, led the American Expeditionary Forces in World War I. His career began at West Point and continued in a cavalry…
Christmas Day
December 25, 2011 — Christmas represents love and mercy. It was ushered in by the star of hope and remains forever consecrated by the sacrifice of the cross. Christmas holds its place in the hearts of men because they know that love is the greatest thing in the world. Christmas is celebrated in its true spirit only by those…
Thanksgiving
November 24, 2011 — The little band of Pilgrims who first established this institution on the shore by Plymouth Rock had no doubts. If their little colony of devoted souls, when exiled to a foreign wilderness by persecution, cut in half by disease, surrounded by hostility and threatened with famine, could give thanks, how much more should this great…
Veteran’s Day
November 11, 2011 — What the veterans gave cannot be measured in money. It was priceless. From “Calvin Coolidge Says”, January 28, 1931
Silent Cal
November 10, 2011 — A wise old owl lived in an oak.The more he saw the less he spoke.The less he spoke the more he heard;Why can’t we be like that old bird? Over the fireplace in Coolidge’s home at Northampton, Massachusetts
Past and Future
October 15, 2011 — We review the past not in order that we may return to it but that we find in what direction, straight and clear, it points to the future. Address as vice president, Burlington, Vermont, June 12, 1923
Columbus Day
October 10, 2011 — Measured by its effect on all following history, the voyage of Columbus, ending in the discovery of a new hemisphere, was an achievement of the first magnitude. Possibly others preceded him, but he was the first who made known the existence of America to European civilization. From “Calvin Coolidge Says”, October 11, 1930
Election Day
October 2, 2011 — Elections are the most serious business in which our citizens engage. On their results depends not only the welfare of the people but the demonstration of their ability to govern themselves with safety and justice to each other. The greatest peace-time test of the moral power of a people is the ability to cast a…
Frank Ashford
September 20, 2011 — In 1927, President and Mrs. Coolidge had a busy summer in Rapid City, South Dakota, a part of the country unfamiliar to both of these Vermont natives. It was here that he received a Native-American warrior’s headdress now displayed at the Calvin Coolidge Presidential Library and Museum (CCPLM). Coolidge was president in 1924 when citizenship…
Congratulations to Class of 2011!
May 16, 2011 — Congratulations to the Class of 2011! “This month will turn out into the world many thousands of young men and young women with college diplomas… They could not have been graduated without subjecting themselves to a great deal of severe mental discipline… One great of a college education is a better appreciation of the real…
Women’s Suffrage
August 26, 2010 — Today marks the 90th anniversary of the 19th Amendment giving women the right to vote. Grace Coolidge cast her first vote in a Federal election on November 2, 1920 with her husband on the ballot for the Vice-President of the United States. In the photo above is Massachusetts Governor Calvin Coolidge and Grace voting in…
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