Reclaiming, recasting Calvin Coolidge

The Boston Globe | July 12, 1998| | Copyright

Calvin Coolidge attended college in Massachusetts. He spent a career in the Massachusetts bar. He rose through the state's political ranks to become governor. After serving as president, he retired to Massachusetts.

Coolidge liked Massachusetts. But Massachusetts, in the years since his 1933 death, has happily abetted the notion that the 30th president, at heart, never really left his birth state of Vermont.

Proud of its liberal past, and its Quincy-through-Camelot connection to the presidency, Massachusetts regards Coolidge like a conservative virus that wafted down from the north, claimed ...

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