Posted on 04/04/2015 10:01:49 AM PDT by 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.
Got a chance to visit his homestead a few years ago...
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.”
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...:)
I’m jealous you got to the homestead. Great picture.
Coolidge was hands down the most conservative president since Grover Cleveland (another good president).Seriously? Grover Cleveland?
A decent Yankee
Hugs out there in the cosmosphere Cal
But hey....smile every now and then
It’s not just Y’all
It’s most of the white race or West
The kids.....brainwashed by culture
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.
“Seriously? Grover Cleveland?”
You need to read up on Cleveland. If he were President today, I’d be a Democrat.
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.
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