The first time Calvin Coolidge met Gutzon Borglum, the president agreed to the artist's scheme to mint commemorative coins. With the coins, Borglum hoped to raise funds to carve a mountain into ...

There was a commander-in-chief who believed in such a model for government. His name was Calvin Coolidge. In many ways Coolidge didn’t seem like a man who would one day become president. He gained the ...

Coolidge believed the nation needed fewer, not more, programs regardless of their purpose. Calvin Coolidge was not a forceful leader in matters of foreign affairs and often deferred to his ...

In 1923, Vice President Calvin Coolidge was sworn in after President William G. Harding died in office. Coolidge inherited many of Harding’s scandals, which he was able to handle with considerable ...

Meanwhile, decent men, such as Calvin Coolidge and Mitch Daniels, become rarer. Our political environment consequently deteriorates (thereby becoming even more inhospitable to good men and ...