Tag Archives: Calvin Coolidge

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.””

〜An October week promoting better homes for Americans in 1922〜

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

〜A guide on how to appease the Founding Fathers this Fourth of July〜