August 3, 2023 represents the 100-year anniversary of the inauguration of President Calvin Coolidge. The immediate circumstances of his rise to the highest office from the position of Vice President were peculiar and challenging. President Warren Harding died in San Francisco on August 2, 1923. Word reached Plymouth, Vermont late in the night. Coolidge’s father John, a notary public, took the unusual step of swearing his son into the Presidency at almost 3 a.m. at the Coolidge family homestead. The event is being recreated this week at the Coolidge Presidential Site.
Harding and Coolidge represented an important break in the emergence of an imperial Presidency embodied by Woodrow Wilson.
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