Some anecdotes about Calvin Coolidge:The first anecdote-When President and Mrs.Coolidge were being given simultaneous but separate tours of a chicken farm,Grace(Mrs.Coolidge) asked the guide whether the rooster copulated more then once a day."Dozens of times,"she was told."Tell that to the president,"she said. When told,Coolidge asked,"Same hen every time" When the guide said," a different one each time," the president said:Tell that to Mrs. Coolidge."
The second anecdote:When President Coolidge was told he meet the Chicago Bears he said,"oh good I like animal acts."
Third anecdote: At dinner a woman sit next to Coolidge and say to him,"oh Mr.President,I bet my friend I could make you say more then two words." Coolidge replied,"You lose."
One of the great speeches,in American History was given by Calvin Coolidge.It was given on 1/17/1924 to the American Society of Newspaper Editors and this is what Coolidge said:"It is only those who do not understand our people who believe that our national life is entirely absorbed by material motives.We make no concealment of the fact that we want wealth,but there are many other things that we want very much more.We want peace with honor,and charity which is so strong an element of all civilization.The chief ideal of the American people is idealism.I cannot repeat too often that America is a nation of idealists."
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