The Conference of the Republican National Committee Women meets with President and Mrs. Coolidge at the White House, a clear endorsement of Coolidge’s leadership, January 12, 1927. Just a small example of the strong Republican woman’s presence in the rough and tumble political world of the 1920s.
Aaron1912 has put up a very entertaining montage of clips of the Coolidges both during the Presidency and in retirement. While both Calvin and Grace knew how to maximize the benefits of technology in film and sound, Mrs. Coolidge is especially accentuating her role opposite Santa Claus (played by Frank Kiernan of the Massachusetts TB League) at 1:27 in this delightful video. Enjoy!
“No man was ever meanly born. About his cradle is the wondrous miracle of life. He may descend into the depths, he may live in infamy and perish miserably, but he is born great. Men build monuments above the graves of their heroes to mark the end of a great life, but women seek out the birthplace and build their shrine, not where a great life had its ending but where it had its beginning, seeking with a truer instinct the common source of things not in that which is gone forever but in that which they know will again be manifest. Life may depart, but the source of life is constant” — Vice President-Elect Calvin Coolidge, January 23, 1921.
The President and Mrs. Coolidge with Suzanne Boone at John Ringling’s circus
The Importance of the Obvious 