#calvin coolidge

[deadpresidents]

"It is a great advantage to a President, and a major source of safety to the country, for him to know that he is not a great man. When a man begins to feel that he is the only one who can lead in this republic, he is guilty of treason to the spirit of our institutions."

-- Former President Calvin Coolidge, on the Presidency, "The Autobiography of Calvin Coolidge," 1929.

#Presidents #History #Presidency #Presidential History #Calvin Coolidge #President Coolidge #Coolidge Administration #The Autobiography of Calvin Coolidge #Presidential Personalities #Presidential Quotes #Quotes by Presidents

[starlight-tequila]

Something I made ages ago

#presidents #john tyler #barack obama #jimmy carter #warren g harding #gerald ford #calvin coolidge #john f kennedy #ronald reagan #james buchanan

[citizenscreen]

100 years ago today, President Calvin Coolidge became the first President to deliver a radio address from the White House. #OnThisDay

#calvin coolidge #american presidents #american history

[uspresidentyaoi]

i practiced drawing u.s presidents. why

#harry s. truman #harry truman #calvin coolidge #dwight eisenhower

[pithia]

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.

Calvin Coolidge

#quotations #Calvin Coolidge #knowledge #wisdom

[ruburnz]

john calvin “i wanna go home” coolidge

#warren harding #calvin coolidge #u.s. presidents #fanart #i usually just make committeeverse oc stuff but i drew this for a friend and was like #well it can go on the art blog i guess

[kiskatminetas]

Today is my first day of class, but last night Calvin slept in his new bed for the first time.

#furry friends #cat pics #calvin coolidge #I bought him this bed in July.

[culturevulturette]

A vastly underrated truth.

#truth #quotations #calvin coolidge

[spaceshipsandpurpledrank]

#talkin #tik tok #food #recipes #calvin coolidge #senyaigrubs.204

[sundae-mourning]

rip calvin coolidge, you would have loved cosplay 😖

#calvin coolidge #us presidents #us history #apush #cosplay #president coolidge #american history #american president

[deadpresidents]

"[President] Coolidge chose to celebrate July 4 [1927] -- which also happened to be his fifty-fifth birthday -- by remaining in South Dakota, where he was having the time of his life. In recognition of all the publicity he was generating with his trip, the state of South Dakota presented him on his birthday with a cowboy outfit and horse. Named Kit, the horse was charitably described as 'spirited.' It was in fact all but untamed. The President, who was by no means a horseman was prudently kept well away from it. Instead his delighted attention was focused on his other main present -- a cowboy outfit consisting of a ten-gallon hat, bright red shirt, capacious blue neckerchief, chaps, boots, and spurs. Coolidge retired to put it all on and emerged clankingly, and a little clumsily, in the full regalia a few minutes later. He looked ridiculous, but very proud, and posed happily for photographers, who could not believe their luck. 'Here was one of the great comic scenes in American history,' wrote Robert Benchley in The New Yorker that week.

Coolidge loved that outfit and wore it for the rest of the summer whenever he could. According to lodge staff, he often changed into it in the evening after his more formal day's duties were done, and for a few hours ceased to be the most important man in America and instead was just a happy cowpoke."

-- Bill Bryson, on President Calvin Coolidge's genuine love for an utterly goofy cowboy outfit given to him as a birthday gift during a vacation in the Black Hills of South Dakota in July 1927, recounted in Bryson's book One Summer: America, 1927 (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO).

#Cowboy Coolidge #History #Presidents #Calvin Coolidge #President Coolidge #Presidential History #Presidential Vacations #Presidential Gifts #Presidential Personalities #Coolidge Administration #Cowboys #Black Hills #Bill Bryson #One Summer: America 1927 #Books #Presidential Photographs #First Families #First Couples #Silent Cal #Calvin Coolidge Was a Weird Dude #He Had a Mechanical Horse in the White House #Seriously

[nosferdoc]

“About the Declaration there is a finality that is exceedingly restful. It is often asserted that the world has made a great deal of progress since 1776, that we have had new thoughts and new experiences which have given us a great advance over the people of that day, and that we may therefore very well discard their conclusions for something more modern. But that reasoning can not be applied to this great charter. If all men are created equal, that is final. If they are endowed with inalienable rights, that is final. If governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, that is final. No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions. If anyone wishes to deny their truth or their soundness, the only direction in which he can proceed historically is not forward, but backward toward the time when there was no equality, no rights of the individual, no rule of the people. Those who wish to proceed in that direction can not lay claim to progress. They are reactionary. Their ideas are not more modern, but more ancient, than those of the Revolutionary fathers.”

— Calvin Coolidge, Speech on the 150th Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, July 5, 1926.

#quotes #calvin coolidge #independence day #1776 #all men are created equal

[notlinny]

US presidents + NYT minus Context

#nyt minus context #george washington #andrew jackson #franklin pierce #james buchanan #abraham lincoln #andrew johnson #benjamin harrison #william howard taft #warren g. harding #calvin coolidge #john f. kennedy #lyndon b. johnson #richard nixon #ronald reagan #george w. bush #barack obama #donald trump #joe biden

[todaysdocument]

President Coolidge places a wreath on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery on Armistice Day, 11/11/1927.

Series: Photographs of American Military Activities, ca. 1918 - ca. 1981

Record Group 111: Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer, 1860 - 1985

Image description: President Coolidge, wearing a long coat and top hat, lays a large floral wreath on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. He is flanked by two other men, both in top hats. Around the Tomb are soldiers, marines, and sailors, presenting arms with bayonets fixed.

#archivesgov #November 11 #1927 #1920s #Veterans Day #Armistice Day #Calvin Coolidge #military #rifle #bayonet

[married-to-a-redhead]

I need to send this to my son’s college history professor. Like most people who haven’t read Amity Shales wonderful biography of Calvin Coolidge, he was all wrong about his presidency.

#calvin coolidge

[ruburnz]

happy calentines day everyone

#this is such a niche joke i hope someone gets it <\3 #calvin coolidge #u.s. presidents #american history #fanart #hehe