Tag Archives: Calvin Coolidge

Four Presidents — Hiram ULYSSES Grant, Stephen GROVER Cleveland, Thomas WOODROW Wilson, and John CALVIN Coolidge — effectively used their middle names as first names. In this article, I examine each of these interesting presidential name cases.

Former First Lady Grace Coolidge was a big baseball fan. She was not, however, a fan of intentional bases on balls.

Calvin Coolidge described seeing then-President Benjamin Harrison speak when Coolidge was in college. I decided to find the story of Harrison’s 1891 orations in Bennington, Vermont.

“Though our mode of life has greatly changed, [the Thanksgiving] custom has always survived.”

President Biden was born closer to Lincoln’s assassination than to his own inauguration. This inspired a study…

“It has been named ‘Billy Possum,’ and for the present is to be retained in Rebecca’s cage.”

“[S]aved from death by President Coolidge’s distaste for that particular delicacy.”

〜Demonstrating the timelessness of Coolidge’s remarks on the home〜

“Saving, in the abstract, is, of course, a perfunctory process as compared with purposeful saving for a home…”

“[T]hat longing which exists in every human breast to be able to say: ‘This is mine.””

Introducing then-President Warren G. Harding’s 1922 Better Homes in America Demonstration Week.

“To reaffirm and reestablish those old theories and principles which time and the unerring logic of events have demonstrated to be sound.”