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WH Advent COMMS Dec 17th

In 1927, President Calvin Coolidge received numerous requests to issue a holiday greeting. President Coolidge handwrote a Christmas message on White House stationery and requested that newspapers publish his note to the American people. Since then, presidents have continued issuing holiday greetings through annual Christmas cards from the First Family.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/adventcalendar/?share_id=252155&utm_source=url#17

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Coolidge’s 1927 XMAS message:

To the American People: —

Christmas is not a time or a season but a state of mind. To cherish peace and good will, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas.

If we think of these things, there will be born in us a Savior and over us will shine a star sending its gleam of hope to the world.

—Calvin Coolidge

https://humanevents.com/2011/12/24/calvin-coolidges-christmas-message-1927/

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In 1927, Coolidge opened Mount Rushmore. Speech excerpt:

Other people have marveled at thegrowth and strength of America.They have wondered howa few weak and discordant colonies were able to win their independence from one of the greatest powers of the world.They have been amazed atour genius for self-government.They have been unable to comprehend howthe shock of a great Civil War did not destroy our Union.They do not understandthe economic progress of our people.It is true that we have had the advantage of great natural resources, but those have not been exclusively ours. Others have been equally fortunate in that direction.The progress of America has been due to the spirit of the people.It is in no small degree due to that spirit that we have been able to produce such great leaders. If coming generations are to maintain a like spirit, it will be because they continue to support the principles which these men represented.It is for that purpose that we erect memorials. We can not hold our admiration for the historic figures which we shall see here without growing stronger in our determination to perpetuate the institutions which their lives revealed and established.

https://millercenter.org/the-presidency/presidential-speeches/august-10-1927-address-opening-work-mount-rushmore-black-hills

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The 'Big House' built by Marion's great grandfather in 1917, has over13,000square feet of living area.

The home contains13bedrooms,13baths, three powder rooms, two kitchens, dining room and three fireplaces.

Good place to hunt human prey?

Links to NYT obit:

Former President George W. Bush, in a statement, called her “a true Texan, a great patron of the arts, a generous member of our community and a person of elegance and strength.”

She had three main positions: president of Burnett Ranches, which runs cattle and horse-breeding operations; president of the Burnett Foundation, which provides grants aimed at the arts, education, health and human services; and chairman of the Burnett Oil Company.

Mrs. Marion was the driving force behind the $65 million expansion of the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, which moved to a new home that was designed by the Japanese architect Tadao Ando and that opened in 2002 to acclaim. She supported a wide range of other institutions, from the National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame in Fort Worth to the city’s illustrious Kimbell Art Museum, where she was a board member for almost 40 years.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/25/us/anne-marion-dead.html?auth=login-email&login=email

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Spending reduction, tax reduction, and paying down the national debt were all major aspects of President Coolidge’s economic policy.These policies had their origins under President Warren G. Harding, who in the aftermath of the 1920 election was faced with a severe economic depression with significant business decline and high unemployment. This economic depression is described by some economists as “by far the most important business cycle development of the first three decades of the twentieth century…

The economic policies of Presidents Harding and Coolidge did much to ameliorate the 1920-22 depression. As Coolidge stated in his address at the Gettysburg battlefield,reductions in debt, taxes, and spending were essential for economic recovery.Both Vedder and Gallaway argue that “the seven years from the autumn of 1922 to the autumn of 1929 were arguablythe brightest period in [the] economic history of the United States.”Overall the nation’s economy entered into a period ofsignificant economic growth

Entrepreneurship also expanded and “new sectors were included that had never before been listed in previous censuses, such as automobiles, telephones and telegraph, and chemicals.”[vii] The automobile and the radio became symbols of the economic progress of the Roaring Twenties. Vedder and Gallaway note that during the Coolidge Prosperity and wages increased.[viii]

Cal CoolidgePresident Coolidge’s policies of spending, tax, and debt reduction also sawbudget surpluses return and an end to the double-digit unemployment from the depression of 1920-1922.Jim Powell, a Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute, described the success of the Harding-Coolidge economic program when he wrote:

Altogether, spending and taxes were cut 50 percent during the 1920s, and about 30 percent of the national debt was paid off. There were budget surpluses throughout the 1920s.Unemployment fell to 1.8 percent, the lowest U.S. peacetime level in more than 100 years

https://www.coolidgefoundation.org/blog/president-coolidges-economics-lesson/

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indeed

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