COOLIDGES ENJOY FULFILLMENT OF ALL POLITICAL & SOCIAL AMBITIONS
Washington, D.C. (JFK+50) Robert T. Small writes in the July 28, 1924 edition of The Evening Star "between...two seasons of sorrow (deaths of President Warren G. Harding & Calvin Coolidge, Jr.) the Coolidges...have enjoyed the greatest happiness...the fulfillment of all political and social ambitions."
According to Mr. Small, President Coolidge entered the high office "at a time when the leaders of his party had just about determined" to replace him on the 1924 Republican ticket as Vice-President.
Within just a few months, "Coolidge was master of his party."
JFK+50 NOTE
Calvin Coolidge won election (on his own) in 1924 & served out his term ending in March 1929. Not known as a man of many words, Mr. Coolidge said, "I do not choose to run in 1928."
Coolidge died on January 5, 1933 just two months before FDR took office for his 1st term. Before he was stricken by a coronary attack, CC told a friend, "I feel I no longer fit in with these times."
SOURCE
"Coolidge's Year in White House Proves Both Happy and Sad," by Robert T. Small, The Evening Star, Washington, D.C., July 28, 1924, Chronicling America, Library of Congress, www.loc.gov/
