Political Quotes

“I take this opportunity to call the Senate's attention to the imminent opening of the new President Calvin Coolidge Museum and Education Center, a wonderful year-round tribute to President Coolidge, located in the graceful and historic setting of the President's home town of Plymouth Notch, VT. The center's formal opening and dedication ceremony will take place next weekend, on August 7. Calvin Coolidge, our 30th President, remains the only President born, sworn into office and buried in the State of Vermont. President Coolidge was originally elected to the Vice Presidency in 1920, winning that election alongside Warren G. Harding. Three years into President Harding's first term, then-Vice President Coolidge received an unexpected messenger one evening while he was vacationing at his family's home in Plymouth Notch. The messenger informed him of President Harding's sudden and untimely death. It was at 2:47 the next morning that Calvin Coolidge was sworn in as President, in the parlor of his family home, alongside his wife Grace Coolidge, a capable and respected First Lady and a leading Vermonter in her own right. The oath of office was administered by President Coolidge's father, a State notary public official, by the light of a kerosene lamp. The new President left for Washington the next morning to assume the burdens of his new office. President Coolidge was always known as a man of few words--the inspiration for his famous nickname, Silent Cal.”