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Calvin Coolidge delivers first recorded video/sound presidential speech on taxes & Govt
YouTube ^ | 1924 | Calvin Coolidge

Posted on 04/04/2015 10:01:49 AM PDT by NRx

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To: NRx

Coolidge made another DeForest Phono-Film in May of 1925. He read portions of his Inaugural Address (of March4, 1925). This film is not on YouTube.


21 posted on 04/04/2015 1:52:56 PM PDT by Arthur McGowan
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To: OwenKellogg
Yep. I loved it, he has always been someone i have greatly admired...

Got a chance to visit his homestead a few years ago...

22 posted on 04/04/2015 1:54:28 PM PDT by rlmorel ("National success by the Democratic Party equals irretrievable ruin." Ulysses S. Grant)
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To: NRx

My absolute favorite Coolidge story:

An important hostess seated next to him at dinner told him why he just HAD to talk to her: “You must talk to me Mr. Coolidge. I made a bet today that I could get more than two words out of you.”

Coolidge told her: “You lose.”


23 posted on 04/04/2015 1:57:45 PM PDT by rlmorel ("National success by the Democratic Party equals irretrievable ruin." Ulysses S. Grant)
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To: VanDeKoik

Funny...I have read books and watched documentaries, but never heard him speak (like most people in his lifetime, apparently!)

I loved watching the video. It fit perfectly, the accent, everything. My wife rolled her eyes at me too...:)


24 posted on 04/04/2015 1:59:48 PM PDT by rlmorel ("National success by the Democratic Party equals irretrievable ruin." Ulysses S. Grant)
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I’m jealous you got to the homestead. Great picture.


25 posted on 04/04/2015 3:08:57 PM PDT by OwenKellogg (CRUZ to Victory! Donate at tedcruz.org)
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Coolidge was hands down the most conservative president since Grover Cleveland (another good president).
Seriously? Grover Cleveland?
26 posted on 04/04/2015 3:22:42 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW!)
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To: NRx

A decent Yankee

Hugs out there in the cosmosphere Cal

But hey....smile every now and then


27 posted on 04/04/2015 3:25:37 PM PDT by wardaddy (Dems hate western civilization and GOP are cowards...We are headed to a dark place)
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To: dowcaet

It’s not just Y’all

It’s most of the white race or West

The kids.....brainwashed by culture


28 posted on 04/04/2015 3:27:50 PM PDT by wardaddy (Dems hate western civilization and GOP are cowards...We are headed to a dark place)
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To: OwenKellogg

It is pretty cool. They have restored the room where he was sworn in...it is a very pretty place, in a bit of a holler in rural Vermont. Very humble.

Different place.

Different time.


29 posted on 04/04/2015 5:29:41 PM PDT by rlmorel ("National success by the Democratic Party equals irretrievable ruin." Ulysses S. Grant)
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“Seriously? Grover Cleveland?”

You need to read up on Cleveland. If he were President today, I’d be a Democrat.


30 posted on 04/04/2015 10:06:30 PM PDT by NRx (An unrepentant champion of the old order and determined foe of damnable Whiggery in all its forms.)
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To: NRx

There was an effusive bio of him, hmm, about ten years ago; while I admire the fact that he married a much younger woman and got her to spit out kids like a vending machine, and that he favored lower tariffs (that’s the issue that beat him his second try), and he prefigured Coolidge and Truman in his settling of strikes, if he were in office today, FR would be a non-stop condemnation of his crony capitalistic ways. :’) As I noted in the William Henry Harrison topic yesterday, two-termers are, for the most part, among our better presidents, and that isn’t a very large list.


31 posted on 04/05/2015 2:42:59 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW!)
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