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Calvin Coolidge

Calvin Coolidge Inauguration Newsreel

On March 4, 1925, Calvin Coolidge was inaugurated the 30th President of the United States. He was sworn in by Chief Justice William H. Taft on the East Portico of the U.S. Capitol. Calvin Coolidge’s inauguration was the first broadcast on radio, he was also the first President to make a sound film, and the [...]

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Calvin Coolidge

Calvin Coolidge’s Inaugural Address

This entry is part 35 of 56 in the series Inaugural Addresses

My Countrymen: No one can contemplate current conditions without finding much that is satisfying and still more that is encouraging. Our own country is leading the world in the general readjustment to the results of the great conflict. Many of its burdens will bear heavily upon us for years, and the secondary and indirect effects [...]

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