Coolidge: Rediscovering An American President

Overview

The first major documentary about CALVIN COOLIDGE, the man Ronald Reagan called “one of our most underrated presidents." The year 1923 brought one of the most unusual presidential inaugurations in American history. Vice President Calvin Coolidge was asleep at his childhood home in rural Vermont when the news came in: President Warren Harding was dead. By candlelight, Coolidge’s own father, a notary public, administered the oath of office to the new president. A century later, Coolidge stands as perhaps America’s most misunderstood and unjustly neglected president. A landmark new documentary film changes that

Cast

Kristi Noem

Self

Calvin Coolidge

Self (Archive Footage)

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Janice Rogers Brown

Self

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Grace Goodhue Coolidge

Self (Archive Footage)

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George Nash

Self

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Edith Jones

Self

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John Dumville

Self

Warren G. Harding

Self (Archive Footage)

Herbert Hoover

Self (Archive Footage)

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Terence Aselford

Narrator