Calvin Coolidge
On August 2, 1923, was vacationing at his father's home at Plymouth,Vermont when one night he was awakened by the tragic news of Warren Harding's death. Harding ,who had been on a public speaking tour of the West, when his health began to deteriorate, tried poorly to alleviate the scandal that have been plaguing his presidency. Praying by candlelight, Coolidge descended the stairs to the plain living room of his father's house, lighted only by two kerosene lamps. Upon an old wooden business desk, a copy of the US Constitution was found and Coolidge took the oath of office, as his father
administered him as the next president of the United States on the family Bible.
In his six years as ...
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has become dangerously complicated and top heavy.." (Touchman 90).
It is no wonder, that Coolidge was known as the "do-nothing" president.
The road to the presidency was not a hard road for Coolidge to come by. He was born on the 4th of July in the summer of 1872 at Vermont. He was originally named John but he later dropped the "John" (Askin 67-68). His parents were John and Victoria Coolidge. His father was a jack-of-all-trades, but was later known to be an exceptional politician. His mother loved poetry and was very beautiful, unfortunately she died when Coolidge was 12 yrs.old (Askin 79). Coolidge was brought up in a very idealistic family. His religious affiliation was vague, yet one can surmise that his family religion was Protestant since the majority of America was Protestant at that time. Also instilled in him at an early age were "attributes of caution, dependability, fairness, honesty, industry, thrift, tolerance, and unpretentiousness, and a belief in ...
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in Vermont. Hammond and Field themselves were active political leaders and found the young Coolidge a willing political apprentice. During 1896 and 1897, Coolidge was active in the Republican Party and in 1898 he was rewarded with the nomination and election as city councilman ("American Presidency"). From then on until his retirement from the presidency he was seldom out of public office.
That same year, Coolidge gained a wife by the name of Grace Anna Goodhue. Grace is the daughter of a Vermont mechanical engineer, and had been a teacher for the deaf at the Clark Institute (Bailey 20). Grace Coolidge was the perfect companion for the affectionate and silent Coolidge. One of ...
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