Calvin Coolidge's Inaugural Address Themes

Calvin Coolidge was all about the Benjamins—saving the Benjamins, to be more specific. He wanted to put money back in the pocket of average Americans, and the way he did that was to drastically c...

It wouldn't be an inaugural address without the newly-elected president painting their own picture of America. Coolidge's vision of America is a nation of hardworking people who reap the fruits of...

Plenty of folks in the 1920s thought the country's values and morals were eroding. Coolidge laced his Inaugural Address with appeals to America's traditional values, and did it in the language of t...

It took a long time to get the U.S. involved in World War I, which was a horrible and bloody war that just illustrated to Americans how the Old World of Europe had torn itself to pieces. So one of...

As a political speech, the Inaugural Address lays out Coolidge's approach to government loud and clear: hands off. His tax and spending cuts, and minimalist approach to federal involvement in Ameri...