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It was given by Calvin Coolidge, the 30th United States President, to the 70th United States Congress. He said, "For many years the Federal Government has been building a system of dikes along the Mississippi River for protection against high water. During the past season the lower States were overcome by a most disastrous flood.
The first president, George Washington, won a unanimous vote of the Electoral College. [4] Grover Cleveland served two non-consecutive terms and is therefore counted as the 22nd and 24th president of the United States, giving rise to the discrepancy between the number of presidencies and the number of individuals who have served as president. [5]
April 21 – Coolidge becomes the first president to give an address on film. [21] May 3 – Coolidge speaks at the groundbreaking for the Washington, D.C. Jewish Community Center. [22] October 20 – Coolidge gives a speech to the Annual Council of the Congregational Churches. [23]
1 president served as president pro tempore of the United States Senate, John Tyler. 1 president served as party leader of the United States Senate, Lyndon B. Johnson. 1 president had a PhD, Woodrow Wilson. 1 president had neither prior government nor military experience before becoming president, Donald Trump.
On December 5, 1923, The New York Times wrote that “the voice of President Coolidge, addressing Congress tomorrow, will be carried [by radio] over a greater portion of the United States and will be heard by more people than the voice of any man in history.” [4] He spoke in Washington, D.C., and the address could be heard on radio stations ...
Coolidge opened his speech by paying tribute to recently deceased President Warren G. Harding: Since the close of the last Congress the Nation has lost President Harding. The world knew his kindness and his humanity, his greatness and his character. He has left his mark upon history. He has made justice more certain and peace more secure.
Coolidge had only served a little less than half of Harding's unexpired term before winning election in his own right. Some believe that Coolidge was honoring the two-term tradition set by President George Washington , even though Coolidge held the opinion that a vice president who succeeded to part of another president's term would not violate ...
In the 1920s, sculptor Gutzon Borglum and President Calvin Coolidge selected George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln (L to R) to appear on Mount Rushmore—it later became an iconic symbol of presidential greatness, chosen to represent the nation's birth, growth, development and preservation, respectively.