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.

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.

On Jan. 5, 1933, just after lunch, Coolidge collapsed in his bedroom in his Northampton, Mass., retirement home, where he had gone to take his customary two-hour nap. His wife found him dead from ...

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.

Coolidge’s quietness proves you don’t need be loudly charismatic or a great orator to be successful in the nation’s highest office. He was inaugurated in 1923 following the death of President Warren ...

'Debt takes its Toll.' Thus does Amity Shlaes begin her biography of Calvin Coolidge, the laconic, flinty-faced New Englander who became America's 30th president upon the death of Warren Harding ...

Coolidge assumes the presidency, Aug. 3, 1923 After Warren Harding died in 1923, Calvin Coolidge was sworn in as president. By Andrew Glass. 08/03/2011 04:36 AM EDT ...