Source: Calvin Coolidge, Memorial Day Address at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia, Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project, https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/memorial-day-address-arlington -national-cemetery-arlington-virginia. … Our generation
My Fellow Americans This returning Decoration Day brings our entire Nation in reverence and respect to the graves of our departed soldiers. Each year their number has increased, as that
For almost a century and a half the Fourth of July has been marked as Independence Day. It has been given over to the contemplation of those principles and those
The relationship between governments and the press has always been recognized as a matter of large importance. Wherever despotism abounds, the sources of public information are the first to be
Patriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country. In no other nation on earth does this principle have such
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President’s Annual Message, 70th Cong., 1st sess., Congressional Record 69, p 1 S103. https://www.congress.gov/bound-congressional-record/1927/12/06. Members of the Congress: It is gratifying to report that for the fourth consecutive year the state of
President’s Annual Message, 68th Cong., 2nd sess., Congressional Record 68, p 1 S29. https://www.congress.gov/bound-congressional-record/1926/12/07. Members of the Congress: In reporting to the Congress the state of the Union, I find it impossible
President’s Annual Message, 69th Cong., 1st sess., Congressional Record 67, p 1 S457. https://www.congress.gov/bound-congressional-record/1925/12/08. Members of the Congress: In meeting the constitutional requirement of informing the Congress upon the state of the
President’s Annual Message, 68th Cong., 2nd sess., Congressional Record 66, p 1 S52. https://www.congress.gov/bound-congressional-record/1924/12/03/senate-section. To the Congress of the United States: The present state of the Union, upon which it is customary for
