by Robert Sobel
Pepper, George
Pepper-McFadden Act
The Perils of Prosperity 1914-1932
Perkins, Wilfred
Pershing, General John J.
Personality. See Character
Peters, Andrew
Petroleum, from Mexico
Pettee, George
Pfeiffer, Mrs. Alexandra Carlisle
Phi Gamma Delta
Phillips, Carrie
Philosophy courses
Philosophy of government
Pinchot, Gifford
Platt, Orville
Plymouth, Vermont, description of
Plymouth Notch, Vermont, description of
A Pocket History of the United States
Policemen: Boston strikes; request for wage increase in New York; strikes of 1919; volunteer force
Policemen’s Union
Policy of stability
Political bosses
Political career: background information; comments on temperament required of a politician; Harding’s death; lieutenant governorship; lieutenant governorship campaign; local politics in Northampton, Mass.; Massachusetts House of Representatives; mayoralty of Northampton; retirement; state senate; vice presidency; vice presidential campaign; vice presidential nomination. See also Governorship; Presidency
Political philosophy
Pollards (aunt and uncle)
Pomerane, Atlee
Postal employees
“Potomac Fever,”
Pratt, Herbert
Prechter, Robert
Preece, Alfred
Preparatory Commission for the Disarmament Conference
Preparatory school
Presidency: address to Congress as new president; announcement of candidacy in 1924; cabinet–; campaign for; coal mine worker strike; death of son; domestic issues; early days; election; foreign relations; last year; nomination of 1924; overview; policy of stability; relationship with Congress; relationship with press; scandal; speech writing; support for nomination; tax reform issues; term following Harding’s death; theme of new administration
Presidents I’ve Known and Two Near Presidents
Press conferences: accomplishments of administration; early days of presidency; farewell address; flood control legislation; during presidential campaign; stock market issues–; tax reform
Press corps, relationship with
Priest, Anne. See Coolidge, Anne Priest (great-great-grandmother)
Primary elections
Procter & Gamble Company
Procter, William
Progressive Party: attempt to revive after Harding nomination; formation of; legislation supported by; programs of 1912
Progressivism
Prohibition: Coolidge’s view of–; Democrats’ view of
Prohibition Amendment
Prohibition Party
Public Improvement Commission
Public improvements, as mayor of Northampton
Public Lands Committee
Public offices. See Political career
Public speaking. See Speeches
Pulitzer, Ralph
Pullman, George
Pullman Strike
Quay, Matthew
Racism. See Ku Klux Klan
Radicalism
Radio addresses
Radio Conference
Radio Corporation of America
Radio-Keith-Orpheum
Radio regulation
Railroad Brotherhoods
Railroads: stock growth; strikes
Ralston, Samuel
Ransdell, Joseph
RCA. See Radio Corporation of America
Read, Dillon
Reagan, Ronald
Recession
Red-baiting
Red Scare
Reed, James
Reed, Thomas
Regan, Donald
Regan, Kathleen
Regan, William F.
Remmel, H.L.
Rent control measures
Republican City Committee
Republican Conventions: of 1920; of 1924; of 1928; state convention
Resolutions Committee
Retirement years
Revenue Acts: of 1921; of 1924; of 1926
Reynolds, James
R.G. Dun & Company
R.H. Stearns and Company
Riley, Thomas P.
Ripley, William Z.
RKO. See Radio-Keith-Orpheum
Roberts, Charles
Roberts, Owen
Robins, Raymond
Robinson, Joseph
Rockefeller, Nelson
Rogers, Will
Rogers Bill
Roosevelt, Franklin D.: comments on Coolidge; election to presidency; programs support for Al Smith; Tennessee Valley Authority; vice presidential nominee
Roosevelt, Theodore: bid for GOP nomination in 1912; death of; endorsement of Coolidge for governor; formation of Progressive Party; friendship with Henry Cabot Lodge; loss of GOP voters to Wilson; Progressivism; relationship with big business; Roosevelt Corollary; vice presidential nomination
Roosevelt Club
Roosevelt Corollary
Root, Elihu
Rosenwald, Julius
Ross, Harry
Rough Riders
Round Hill
Rowe, Donald
Russell, Francis
Sacasa, Juan
Salary bill
San Francisco Exposition
Sanders, Everett
Sandino, Augustino
Sargent, John
Sarnoff, David
Sawyer, Roland D.
Scandals: Coolidge administration; Harding administration
Schlesinger, Arthur M., Jr.
Schwed, Fred
Seattle, Washington, shipyard worker strike
Sedition Acts
Seibold, Louis
Senate: Coolidge’s relationship with; state
Senate Committee on Public Lands
Senate Resolution
Sense of humor
Separation of powers
Shakedowns
Sherman, George
Shipstead, Henrik
Shipyard workers, strike
Shopmen, strike
Shotwell, James
Shotwell, Thomas
Shyness: at Amherst College; during childhood
Silver, Thomas
Simmons, Colonel William
Simmons-Longworth Bill
Sinclair, Harry
Sinclair, James
Sinclair Oil Company
“Sinnissippi,”
Slemp, C. Bascom
Sloan, Alfred
Smith, Al: on death of Coolidge; as governor of New York; as presidential candidate; relationship with Coolidge
Smith, Jess
Smith, Roxie
Smoot, Reed
Snell, Bertrand
Social clubs
Social issues
Socialist Party
Socialists
Soldier’s Bonus Bill
Soviet Revolution
Soviet Union
Special counsels
Speeches: address to Congress as new president; Black River Academy graduation speech; on business; conciseness of; debates at Amherst College; on government and business; governorship campaign; Grove Oration; on materialism; patriotism theme; philosophy of government; presidential campaign; radio addresses; on relations with Mexico; speech writing as president; state senate presidency acceptance; style; supporting Hoover; tax reform; as vice president; vice presidential nomination acceptance; Wheaton College. See also Inaugural addresses; State of the Union addresses
Spirituality
Sproul, William
St. Johnsbury Academy
Staab, Ralph
Standard Oil
Starling, Edmund
State constitutional convention
State Democratic Convention
State Guard
State of the Union addresses:
of 1924; of 1925; of 1926, ; of 1927; of 1928; final; as new president
State senate: acceptance speech for senate presidency; first term; fourth term; president of; second term; third term
Stearns, Frank: Coolidge’s comments on shyness; McCall’s request for support; opinion of McCall; relationship with Coolidge; support for Coolidge
Steelworkers, strikes
Stevens, Jesse
Stickney, J.W.
Stimson, Henry
Stock market: crash; fluctuations in
Stocking, Jay
Stoddard, Henry
Stone, Harlan Fiske
Storrow, James J.
Storrow Committee
Strawn, Silas
Streetcar companies, competition from jitneys
Streseman, Gustav
Strikes: American Woolen Company; during Amherst College years; Boston policemen; coal mine workers; of 1919; shipyard workers of Seattle; telephone workers in Boston; textile workers
Strong, Benjamin
Strother, French
Suffrage Amendment. See Women’s Suffrage Amendment
Sugar Trust
Sullivan, Mark
Surtaxes
Taft, Stephen S.
Taft, William Howard
Tariff issues: on agricultural products; tariff reductions
Tax reform
Taylor, Leighton C.
Teacher salaries
Teapot Dome Affair
Tebbetts, Lewis
Telephone workers, strike in Boston
Temperament. See Character
Tennessee Valley Authority
Textile workers, strike
Thompson, “Big Bill,”
Thompson, Charles
Tilson, John
Timilty, “Diamond Jim,”
Timmons, Bascom
Traction magnates
Transportation workers, strikes
Treadway, Allen
Treaties. See Peace treaties
Trotsky, Leon
Tuberculosis
Two-term rule
Tyson Furnace, Vermont
Underwood, Oscar
Unemployment rate
Unger, Irwin
Unions: Boston policemen; Central Labor Union; firemen. See also Labor issues; Strikes
United Kingdom: economic issues; Geneva Conference
United Mine Workers
United Press
United Shoe Manufacturing Company
United States Coal Commission
United States Liquidation Commission
United States v. Mammoth Oil
U.S. Steel Corporation
Vermont: childhood in; Coolidge’s comments on pre-Civil War generation; description of Plymouth and Plymouth Notch
Versailles Peace Conference
Versailles Treaty
Veterans Bureau
Vice presidency: campaign; duties; Harding’s death; inaugural address; nomination
Villa, Pancho
Villard, Oswald Garrison
Volstead Act
von Mises, Ludwig
Voyage of Understanding
Wadsworth, James
Wages and hours legislation
Waldo, Ralph
Waldo, Richard
Walker, Joseph
Wall, Louis
Wall Street Journal
Wallace, Henry
Walpole, Horace
Walsh, David
Walsh, Frank
Walsh, John Jackson
Walsh, Thomas
War Industries Board
Ward Two, Coolidge as councilman
Warren, Charles
Wartime debts
Washington Naval Conference
Watson, James
Wedding
Weeks, John
Weir, Robert
Welch bill
Welliver, Judson
West End Thread Corporation
West Virginia, strikes
Wheaton College
Wheeler, Burton
Whipple, Sherman
White, William Allen
Whiting, William
Widener, Peter A.B.
Wilbur, Curtis
Willis, Frank
Willis, H. Parker
Wilson, Lyle
Wilson, Woodrow: Boston police strike; congratulations to Coolidge on governorship; historians’ view of; as president; presidential nomination; Versailles Peace Conference
Wilson Dam
Wobblies. See International Workers of the World
Wolcott, Roger
Women, role at 1924 convention
Women’s Home Companion
Women’s Suffrage Amendment
Wood, General Leonard
Woods, Mark
Work week length
Workmen’s compensation
Workplace legislation
World Court
World Telegram Almanac and Book of Facts
World War I,
World’s Work
Wright Aeronautical
Yale Law School
Yerkes, Charles T.
Youth. See Childhood
Zimmerman, Arthur
1 Strangely, this practice is not common. Republican Senator John McCain of Arizona realized the importance of such symbols. In 1997, while chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee, he left the chair and turned it over to a surprised Senator Ernest Hollings, a Democrat from South Carolina. Hollings quickly recovered, and said, “John, I’d be delighted to take it, but some of your colleagues might object,” to which McCain replied, “Screw that.” In recounting the story, Hollings, added, “I do admire that John McCain.”
2 One of the letters came from an old classmate, Elmer Slayton Newton. Coolidge replied:Dear Newt:
I am glad you liked what I did. I knew you would.
Cal
3 This refers to the continuing split in the Republican Party in 1916, when Johnson’s refusal to support Hughes lost him the electoral votes of that state, and with it, the presidency.
4 The Kenyon Committee later disclosed that spending on the presidential campaign in 1920 cost $10.3 million, of which $8.1 million went for Harding, and $2.2 million for James Cox.
5 Dale was campaigning for reelection, and heard the news of Harding’s death from a newspaperman. He rushed to Plymouth Notch to inform Coolidge of what had happened, but arrived after the others.
6 Recall that Coolidge supported a veterans’ bonus while governor and indicated an interest in the League. In June 1923 the United States and the United Kingdom signed the Debt Refunding Agreement, which provided that the UK pay its debt in semi-annual installments over a period of sixty-two years, with an interest rate of 3.3 percent.
7 Recall that McAdoo was Wilson’s son-in-law as well as secretary of the treasury and a front-runner for the 1920 Democratic nomination.
8 Coolidge’s voyage to Havana was unusual, given the notion that American politicians had no need to venture abroad. Borah, who succeeded Lodge as chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee and was in this position at the outbreak of World War II, had never set foot out of the United States—a mystic had predicted he would die at sea, and Borah was afraid of water travel.
9 This refers to the fact that Hoover had been out of the country during much of that period and did not vote in the elections.
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