Authors: Amity Shlaes
Tags: #Biography & Autobiography / Presidents & Heads of State
Pierce, Aurora, 274, 343
Pierce, Jason Noble, 232, 256–57, 275, 447
Pillsbury, Albert, 160, 164–65
Pinchot, Gifford, 262–63, 281, 353
Pittsburgh Reduction Company, 52
Platforms, Republican Party, 127–30, 273, 290
Platt Amendment, 71
Plummer, Thomas, 231
Plymouth, Vermont
Coolidge family life in, 1–4, 13–19
Coolidge’s birth and early life in, 19–30
limekiln lot in (
see
Limekiln lot)
Pocket vetoes, 40, 348, 417, 444
Poker cabinet, Harding’s, 227
Polack, Charles, 131
Police strike.
See
Boston Police strike
Politics
Anson Morse on political parties and, 49–50
Coolidge’s interest in, at Amherst College, 38–47
Coolidge’s interest in, in Northampton, 76–78
at Hammond and Field, 64–65, 68–69
Pollard, Don (uncle), 25
Pollard, Park, 429
Pollard, Sarah (aunt), 25, 87, 283
Pollock v. Farmers’ Loan & Trust Co.
, 245–46
Pomerene, Atlee, 281–82
Ponzi, Charles, 203–4
Ponzi scheme, 203–4
Portraits, 333, 396–97, 415
Post-presidency life, Coolidge’s, 434–56
concern about Franklin Roosevelt during, 450, 452–54
inauguration of Herbert Hoover during, 434–35
life in Northampton during, 435–37
Mount Rushmore inscription embarassment durign, 438–40
move into new house in Northampton during, 441
Republican Party activities during, 450–53
stock market and personal finance issues during, 437–38, 440–41, 446, 449
writing activities during, 441–49
Pratt, Herbert, 34, 44, 54, 69, 413
Prep school, Coolidge’s, 31–32
Presidency, Coolidge’s.
See
Coolidge administration
Presidential candidacy, Coolidge’s, 188–98.
See also
Vice-presidency, Coolidge’s
beginnings of, 142, 176, 179, 185–87
Boston speeches by Coolidge and Harding during, 195–96
campaign spending and corruption charges against opponents during, 196–97
at Chicago Republican Convention, 198–202
issues in, 189–93
Massachusetts Republican Party and, 193–94
Presidents, U.S.
comparison of Coolidge with other, 7–8 (
see also
Cleveland, Grover; Coolidge administration; Harding administration; Harrison, Benjamin; Hoover, Herbert; Roosevelt, Theodore; Taft, William; Wilson, Woodrow)
Press conferences, 267
Price controls, 191, 195, 235, 324, 344, 345, 346, 351, 378
Private insurance company issue, 132
Proctor, Henry, 336
Progressive Party, 116–17
Progressivism
at Amherst College, 247–48
Coolidge’s, 94, 114, 124, 177
as national movement, 65
Progressive Party, 116–17
prolabor, 104
Robert La Follette and, 240 (
see also
La Follette, Robert)
Roosevelt’s vs. Taft’s, 112
Theodore Roosevelt and, 88–90 (
see also
Roosevelt, Theodore)
trust busting in, 98
World War I as victory for, 148
Prohibition, 174, 182, 270
Proliquor policies, 106–7
Property rights, 52–53, 63
Protectionism
Coolidge on, 191–93, 195
stock market crash and, 440–41
tariffs and, 28, 39–41 (
see also
Tariffs)
Prouty, Orville, 68
Prudence Prim (dog), 373, 376
Public Franchise League, 119
Public speaking.
See
Speeches, Coolidge’s
Public works issues, 343–44
Pulitzer Prizes, 291
Pullman strike, 46–47
Pupin, Michael, 291
Pure Food and Drug Act, 95
Putney, Charles, 32
Radio broadcast technology, 271, 273, 318
Rahar’s inn, 73, 92, 107
Railroads
antitrust case against, 102–3
chairmanship of state Senate railroad committee, 118–20
growth of, 106
Hepburn Act and regulation of, 95
investments in, 72
nationalizing of, 144–45
in Northampton, 62
regulation of, 89, 117–20
as targets for regulation by progressives, 99–101
Theodore Roosevelt on, 83
Railroad strike, 46–47
Randolph, Mary, 283, 299, 300
Reading law.
See
Hammond and Field law firm
Reagan, Ronald, 8
Recession, Coolidge’s anticipation of, 423–24
Red Cross, 357–59, 400, 402
Redmond, John, 236
Red tape issue, 323
Reed, James, 161, 196, 231, 327
Reelection campaign, Coolidge’s, 301–19
car caravan on Lincoln Highway in, 307–9
Coolidge-Dawes Caravan in, 313–14, 318
issues of, 304–6
reactions to results of, 318–20
third-party challenge in, 304–5, 311–12
Reemts, Richard, 169
Refugee camps, floods and, 359
Regulation
Amherst College sewage system and, 120–21
Pure Food and Drug Act and, 94–95
of railroads, 99–101
Relief mission, Coolidge and Hoover’s, 358–60
Religious faith
Coolidge and, 6, 33, 42, 59, 256, 267–68, 302
Coolidge family’s, 14–16, 20
Grace Coolidge’s, 246–47
Representative, Coolidge as.
See
State representative, Coolidge as
Republican Party
at Amherst College, 38, 43
Chicago convention of, 141–42, 198–202
Cleveland convention of, 293–94
Coolidge administration and, 273
Coolidge as chairman of Northampton, 82
Coolidge as presidential candidate for Massachusetts, 185–86
Coolidge’s joining of, in Northampton, 68–69
Coolidge’s work for, 82, 94, 117, 127–29, 450–53
decline of Whig Party and rise of, 49–50
desire of, for Coolidge to run again, 397
Harding administration midterm elections and, 242
Kansas City, convention at, 402
Massachusetts state representative campaign and, 94
Massachusetts state Senate presidency and, 121
of Northampton, 90
party platforms of, 127–30, 273, 290
in Plymouth, Vermont, 22
post-presidency activities of Coolidge for, 450–53
Progressive Party vs., 116–17
progressivism and, 177
results of Harding-Coolidge election for, 209
Reynolds, James Burton, 82, 188, 197
Richardson, Robert, 455
Riis, Jacob, 65
Riley, Ellen, 343, 347–48, 352, 371–73, 410, 419
Rioting, Boston Police strike and, 157–58, 160–63
Road commissioner, Coolidge’s father as, 57
Roberts, Owen, 281–82
Robertson Aircraft Corporation, 356, 366
Robinson, Corinne Roosevelt, 211
Robinson, Joseph, 279, 327, 329, 344
Rob Roy (dog), 277, 283, 317, 319
Rogers, Maggie, 283
Rogers, Will, 8, 219, 257, 263–64, 296, 298, 309, 320, 339, 342, 343, 350, 362–64, 368, 382, 404, 412, 424, 435–36, 441, 446
Roosevelt, Alice,
See
Longworth, Alice Roosevelt
Roosevelt, Edith, 90
Roosevelt, Eleanor, 83, 414, 455
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, 7, 83, 113, 149, 165, 166, 203, 206, 295, 350, 360, 450–54
Roosevelt, Quentin, 145
Roosevelt, Theodore, 83, 90, 114, 116, 117, 127, 129, 134, 135, 136, 137, 138, 142, 144, 146, 147, 182, 189, 190, 211, 227, 247, 256, 260, 384, 432-34,
Coolidge and, 7
death of, 149
decision of, to not run, 105, 385
federal food and drug regulation by, 94–95
on Mount Rushmore, 375, 384, 386, 439
as New York police commissioner, 65
peace treaty and, 432–33
presidency of, 76–78, 84, 88, 94, 96, 100, 101, 103, 106, 188, 214, 221, 257, 319, 358, 379, 386
presidential campaign of, 82–83
Progressive Party of, 116–17
progressivism of, 88–90, 102
return of, to politics, 109, 112–13, 127, 419
in Spanish-American War, 71
Root, Elihu, 71, 105
Rosenwald, Julius, 436
Ross, Harry, 454
Rutland Railway Light and Power, 401
Ryan Airlines, 356
Sacco, Nicola, 383, 385, 415
St. Johnsbury Academy, 31–32, 399
San Carlos Irrigation Project, 293
Sanders, Everett, 367, 381, 397, 440–41, 451–53
Sandino, August, 377, 404
Sapelo Island, 426, 431
Sargent, John Garibaldi, 57–58, 63, 236, 329, 335, 337, 365, 392, 401, 424, 428, 444
Sawyer, C. E., 219, 249, 258
Scandals
Ponzi scheme, 203–4
in Harding administration, 232–33, 235, 244–45 (
see also
Teapot Dome scandal)
in Harding administration, as issue for Coolidge administration, 255, 262, 268–69, 322
Scandrett, Richard, 445
Schiff, Mortimer, 38
Schneider, Isidor, 454
School committee loss, Northampton, 86, 88, 90
School officer, Coolidge’s father as, 22–23
Schroeder, Rudolph, 194
Schurman, Jacob, 418
Scientific taxation idea, 265–67, 289, 310–11, 338–39, 341–42
Scudder, Vida, 115
Seattle, general strike in, 152
Securities Exchange Company, 203–4 (
see also
Ponzi scheme)
Seelye, Laurenus Clark, 105, 229
Selective Service Act, 143
Senate, Massachusetts.
See
State senator, Coolidge as
Senate, U.S.
Coolidge’s error in, 228
Coolidge vice-presidency and, 223
election of senators to, 181
Harding’s friends in, 214–15, 230
investigation by, of campaign spending and corruption, 196–97
rejection by, of donated residence for vice-president, 244
speech against, by Charles Dawes, 327–28
Service
Charles Edward Garman on, 52–53
Coolidge family philosophy of, 17
Coolidge’s philosophy of, 10
as ideal in Coolidge administration, 317, 323–24
as ideal in Coolidge vice-presidency, 234, 236, 252
Sesquicentennial of Battle of Bennington, 387, 390
Seventeenth Amendment, 181, 223
Sewage system regulation, 120–21
S. F. Bridgeman Bookstore, 68
Shakespeare, William, 15
Shaw, Edward, 61, 69, 318
Shays, Daniel, 2, 17, 64
Shays’s Rebellion, 171–72
Sheffield, James, 377
Sherman, George, 28–29, 32
Sherman Antitrust Act, 47, 77, 100, 103, 117–18, 316
Sherman Silver Purchase Act, 40, 43–44
Short story, Coolidge’s, 55
Shotwell, James, 411, 414
Silence, Coolidge’s
as advantage in presidential campaign, 308–9
as law clerk, 68
as liability in vice-presidency, 221, 224, 228, 238
as personal style, 73–74, 130
Silent majority phrase, 186, 424
Silver standard, 40, 43
Simmons, Furnifold, 339, 394
Sinclair, Harry, 227, 240, 269, 281, 295
Sinclair, Upton, 94–95
Sinclair Oil, 240
Sleight, Reuben, 401
Slemp, C. Bascom, 261, 274, 382
Smith, Alfred E., 295, 297, 424, 436, 455–56
Smith, Ira, 322
Smith, Jess, 247, 280
Smith, Jonathan, 172
Smith, Robert, 454
Smith, Sophia, 61
Smith College, 62, 104, 398–99
Smoot, Reed, 209, 262, 338–39, 378–79, 440
Snell, Bertrand, 452
“Snow-Bound” (poem), 16, 92
Socialist Party, 115
Social Register, 220–21, 224
Solicitor general, Coolidge as Northampton, 72, 74–76
Sons and Daughters of the American Revolution, 55–56, 66–67
South Dakota summer White House, 367–68, 370–86
Spanish-American War, 71
Spargo, John, 387, 430
Speaking.
See
Public speaking
Special prosecutor, Coolidge administration, 281
Speculation, stock market, 425, 449
Speeches, Coolidge’s
to AFL, 151–52
to American Legion, 233–34, 336
at Amherst College, 37–39, 43–44, 48, 54–58
at Bennington, 430–31
at Black River Academy, 27, 29
book of (
see
Have Faith in Massachusetts
(book))
at budget meeting, 296
for Charles Lindbergh, 365
at Coolidge inauguration, 326–28
eulogy for Warren Harding, 273
eulogy for William McKinley, 76
first presidential policy speech, 271–73
in Harding campaign in New England, 205–6
for Hoover at Madison Square Garden, 452–53
at inauguration as vice-president, 212–14
Lincoln Day Speech, 198
to Massachusetts state senate, 131–32
at Memorial Day in Northampton, 249
at Mount Rushmore, 384
payment for, 305
in Plymouth, 68, 210
presidential campaign, 195–96
radio broadcast of, 318
State of the Union address, 402–3
welcoming Woodrow Wilson to Boston, 149–50
Spencer, Selden, 10, 317
Spirit of St. Louis
airplane, 365
Springfield Brewing Company, 106–7
Spruce, White House, 11, 301–3
Staab, Ralph, 130–31
Stables, White House, 434
Stafford, Wendell, 179
Standard Brands stock, 437, 440
Standard Oil, 98, 101, 106, 240
Starling, Edmund, 258, 260, 269–70, 275–76, 284, 316–18, 325, 326, 328, 329, 330, 333, 334, 343, 354–55, 373, 374, 380, 383, 385, 397, 398, 412, 419, 420, 424, 431, 436, 443, 450, 453
State House, Massachusetts, 95–96
State of the Union address, 402–3
State representative, Coolidge as, 94–105
State Senate president, Coolidge as, 121–24, 126–27, 129–35
State senator, Coolidge as, 111–12, 114–24
Stearns, Emily, 211–12, 333
Stearns, Foster, 143, 145–46, 220
Stearns, Frank
as Amherst College alumnus, 34
Amherst College sewage system and, 120–21