George H. Nash is best known as the biographer of modern conservatism, and second best as the biographer of Herbert Hoover. His new book, Reappraising the Right, also includes some timely material on Silent Cal. Traditional history classes Coolidge and Hoover together, as “righties.” But that is indeed cartoon. Their conservatism and their personalities differed severely. SilentCal.com e-interviewed Nash on [...]
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An Interview with George H. Nash
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Calvin Coolidge, George H. Nash on January 27, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Berryman, Coolidge, and the 1920 Election
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged 1920 campaign, Berryman, Calvin Coolidge on January 25, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Clifford Berryman was a probably the most important political cartoonist of the early twentieth century. The National Archives, which maintains an extensive collection of more than 2,400 Berryman cartoons, describes him this way: Berryman was one of Washington’s best-known and most-admired graphic political commentators in the first half of the 20th century. Berryman drew for [...]
Coolidge Awards the Congressional Medal of Honor
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Calvin Coolidge, Congressional Medal of Honor, Henry Breault, submarine on January 12, 2010 | 1 Comment »
On March 8, 1924, Torpedoman Second Class Henry Breault received the Congressional Medal of Honor during a ceremony on the White House lawn. Breault won the medal for heroic actions after his submarine, the USS O-5 (SS-66), sank during a collision in the Panama Canal. Rather than escape from the vessel (which had collided with the [...]
Coolidge and the “Little Cabinet”
Posted in Uncategorized on January 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Coolidge dined annually with the assistant secretaries of the various cabinet departments (and the undersecretaries of State and Treasury, which used the latter title). Dubbed the “Little Cabinet” during the Harding Administration, the group found its roots in the “Tennis Cabinet” of Teddy Roosevelt’s White House. While not a formal organization, the Little Cabinet met [...]
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