Presidential Chronicles

Episode #298: Calvin Coolidge #10: Nothing Lasts Forever (1927-1933)


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Calvin Coolidge #10: Nothing Lasts Forever (1927-1933); Topics covered include: Summer in South Dakota, fishing, speaks on Indian reservations, announces not running for re-election, election of 1928, makes up with his home state of Vermont; widespread prosperity, Hoover elected, concerns about the stock market and borrowing to buy stocks, Hoover's inauguration, return to Massachusetts, lack of privacy, buys first home (The Beeches), writes Autobiography, writes daily newspaper column ("Thinking Things Over with Calvin Coolidge"), the Depression, election of 1932, speech at Madison Square Garden, fells out of touch with the latest politics, and death of Coolidge


Key people include: Edmund Starling, Gutzon Borglum, Grace Coolidge, Everett Sanders, Frank Stearns, Herbert Hoover, and Al Smith


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Presidential ChroniclesBy David Fisher