Calvin Coolidge

30th President of the United States, American politician, 1872-1933

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About

Calvin Coolidge, born July 4, 1872, in Plymouth Notch, Vermont, and died January 5, 1933, in Northampton, Massachusetts, was the 30th President of the United States from 1923 to 1929. A lawyer by training, he rose through Massachusetts politics, becoming governor before serving as vice president under Warren G. Harding. He assumed the presidency upon Harding's death in 1923 and was elected to a full term in 1924. Nicknamed 'Silent Cal' for his reticence, he embodied fiscal conservatism and limited government during the 1920s. He declined to run again in 1928.

Major works

Have Faith in Massachusetts (1919)collection of speeches
The Price of Freedom (1925)collection of speeches
Foundations of the Republic (1926)collection of speeches
The Mind of the President (1926)essay
The Autobiography of Calvin Coolidge (1929)autobiography

Key milestones

1919As Governor of Massachusetts, he handled the Boston Police Strike, declaring: 'There is no right to strike against the public safety by anyone, anywhere, any time.'
1923He was sworn in as president after Warren G. Harding's death, in a nighttime ceremony lit by kerosene lamp, administered by his father, a notary public.
1928He announced his decision not to run again with the terse statement: 'I do not choose to run for president in 1928.'

Themes

limited governmentfiscal restrainttax cutsconservatismreserve and taciturnity

Sources: whitehousehistory.org · loc.gov · coolidgefoundation.org

“N AO, em Great Minds Page 179 A' If I had permitted mv y failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me, I cannot see any way in which I would have ever made progress.”

— Calvin CoolidgeTheme · Personal Development

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“Our real problem is not our strength today; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure our strength tomorrow.”

— Calvin CoolidgeTheme · Leadership

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“Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.”

— Calvin CoolidgeTheme · Society

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“Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan, 'press on' has solved, and always will solve, the problems of the human race.”

— Calvin CoolidgeTheme · Motivation

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