Just weeks after Calvin Jr. died, Coolidge spent 12 days in Plymouth Notch. With him came his staff and 18 Secret Service agents. Telephone and telegraph wires had to be strung to the village.

John Calvin Coolidge came into the world there on July 4, 1872, the only president born on Independence Day. He was part of the fifth generation of Coolidges to live in Plymouth Notch.

In the summer of 1927, Coolidge and his wife attended a little white box of a church in Hermosa, S.D., that resembled the church back home in his boyhood Vermont.

But rather than dooming the rascally little critter to his Thanksgiving table, President Calvin Coolidge opened his home; Rebecca was spared, and the Coolidges had an unorthodox new pet.

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The president was accompanied by Mrs. Coolidge, Governor Redfield Proctor of Vermont, former Governor Percival W. Clement, Republican Committeeman Earl S. Kinsey, United States Marshal A.V. Harvey ...

The time will never be better than today to recall the tribute Calvin Coolidge once wrote about Walter Johnson, Washington’s greatest baseball star. (Actually, this probably isn’t the right ...

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Calvin Coolidge was sworn in to his second term as the 30th president exactly 100 years ago. It turns out "Silent Cal" had a lot to say -- about the virtues of saying little. John Dickerson and ...

August marks Calvin Coolidge's centennial of becoming our 30th president. We could learn much during these troubled times from Coolidge's tenure in the White House.