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US Mourns Calvin Coolidge (Film Footage from 1933)
YouTube ^ | 07-21-2015 | British Movietone

Posted on 09/03/2018 5:05:09 PM PDT by NRx

Calvin Coolidge died from heart-failure at his home in Northampton Massachusetts on January 5th 1933 aged 60. In keeping with his wishes there was no state funeral and the ceremonial was kept to a minimum. Following the funeral attended by President Hoover and family representatives of President-Elect Roosevelt, Coolidge was taken back to his native Vermont and laid to rest in the village cemetery of Plymouth Notch next to his beloved son Calvin Jr. who had died in 1924 aged 16 and near his father and mother. To date he is the last president to be buried in a public cemetery. (John Kennedy lies in Arlington which is a national cemetery with restrictions on who may be interred there. All other presidents since Mr. Coolidge have opted to be interred on the grounds of their presidential libraries. Mr. Coolidge was the last president not to have a library erected in his honor.)

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RIP Calvin Coolidge (1872-1933) - the greatest president since Grover Cleveland and the last constitutional conservative.
1 posted on 09/03/2018 5:05:09 PM PDT by NRx
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To: NRx

It says his funeral was kept to a minimum...so just one week or two?


2 posted on 09/03/2018 5:09:27 PM PDT by KOZ.
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To: NRx

Appreciate the link. But it took me to Taft’s.


3 posted on 09/03/2018 5:09:36 PM PDT by GOP Poet
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To: NRx

Your film is Tafts funeral, not Coolidge.


4 posted on 09/03/2018 5:10:19 PM PDT by Bommer (Help out 2ndDivisionVet and his wife - https://www.gofundme.com/married-recent-amputees)
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To: Bommer

Well, they were lovers


5 posted on 09/03/2018 5:11:28 PM PDT by AppyPappy (How many fingers am I holding up, Winston?)
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To: GOP Poet

Oh S-—! wrong link!

https://youtu.be/9LcduxFUxB0


6 posted on 09/03/2018 5:11:51 PM PDT by NRx (A man of integrity passes his father's civilization to his son, without selling it off to strangers.)
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To: NRx

The left hates him; he was an advocate for liberty.


7 posted on 09/03/2018 5:13:01 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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Warren Harding was great, too, and Coolidge benefitted from his policies and that of Treasury Secretary Mellon (who should’ve been Coolidge’s successor). Harding resolved the Wilson Recession in short order by cutting taxes and government. He is hated by leftist academia because he proved cutting both is the key to economic recovery, not taxing, spending and expanding government.


8 posted on 09/03/2018 5:13:32 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj ("It's Slappin' Time !")
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To: NRx

Link was to President Taft, who died the same year.


9 posted on 09/03/2018 5:14:14 PM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Molon Labe)
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To: NRx
Yes, one of our great presidents, very much overlooked. While I was growing up the media and comedians turned him into something of a joke, who knows why. Even conservatives often overlook him.
 
10 posted on 09/03/2018 5:14:33 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie ("Nature, Mr. Allnut, is what we are put in this world to rise above.")
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To: NRx

My favorite President after Washington and Jefferson.

L


11 posted on 09/03/2018 5:15:07 PM PDT by Lurker (President Trump isn't our last chance. President Trump is THEIR last chance.)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

Sorry I posted a corrected link in #6.


12 posted on 09/03/2018 5:15:50 PM PDT by NRx (A man of integrity passes his father's civilization to his son, without selling it off to strangers.)
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I made a pilgrimage to Plymouth Notch on May 2, 2015. Wonderful experience.


13 posted on 09/03/2018 5:17:25 PM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Molon Labe)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

I was there back in the 1990’s. I can’t believe that the same state that gave us Coolidge keeps electing Bernie Sanders.


14 posted on 09/03/2018 5:21:22 PM PDT by NRx (A man of integrity passes his father's civilization to his son, without selling it off to strangers.)
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The state that gave us Coolidge was overrun by people fleeing New York in the 1970s.


15 posted on 09/03/2018 5:22:56 PM PDT by Publius
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By 2024, Trump will be the greatest President since Coolidge.


16 posted on 09/03/2018 5:23:58 PM PDT by nonliberal (Sent from a payphone in a whorehouse in Mexico)
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To: NRx
I went to the top of Mt. Coolidge this summer:


17 posted on 09/03/2018 5:27:20 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Governor Dinwiddie
In school they taught us that Coolidge had an uneventful, almost failed presidency. In reality he was a great limited government conservative and presided over one of the greatest US economies.

Coolidge complained during his presidency that Hoover was always giving him unsolicited advise and all of it wrong.

18 posted on 09/03/2018 5:35:05 PM PDT by caltaxed
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My mother, stepdad, stepgrandmom and I visited Coolidge's birthplace in the summer of 1983, on our way home to PA from staying with relatives in Nova Scotia. I went inside his (Congregationalist) church. His pew had a large Old Glory standing next to it in the outside aisle. If I had known Cal was buried there I would have visited it too. RIP Cal and thank you.

ff

19 posted on 09/03/2018 5:37:58 PM PDT by foreverfree
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To: NRx

Bookmark


20 posted on 09/03/2018 5:49:22 PM PDT by Southside_Chicago_Republican (If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.)
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