RUMOR 'CAL' WILL BE DROPPED FROM TICKET IN '24 UPSETS COOLIDGE & HIS FRIENDS
Northampton, Massachusetts (JFK+50) On April 22, 1923, the Sunday Star reports that Vice-President Calvin Coolidge and his friends "are considerably disturbed over the gossip that the republican ticket should be strengthened in 1924 by substituting a mid-western man, preferably a progressive."
To this time, President Warren G. Harding has not indicated if Mr. Coolidge will once again be his running-mate in 1924. 'Cal's' friends want the President "to come out squarely for their man."
The Vice-President's neighbors say two years in Washington, D.C. has changed him--he is "more communicative" and "more of an optimist" than before. His smile, they say, has turned into a chuckle.
JFK+50 NOTE
Calvin Coolidge, a.k.a. 'Silent Cal,' was notorious for his quiet demeanor. The story goes that at a White House dinner a lady sitting next to him spent the entire evening trying to get him to talk. Finally, exasperated the woman said, "I had a bet with my friends that I could get you to say more than two words tonight." He replied, "You lose!"
SOURCE
"Friends Resent Rumor That 'Cal' Will Not Be Vice-President Again," The Sunday Star, Washington, D.C., April 22, 1923, Chronicling America, Library of Congress, www.loc.gov/
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