The 60th Presidential Inauguration
What a big donation gets you, and other things you probably don’t know
In the middle of a summer night in 1923, a courier ran up to a farmhouse in Plymouth Notch, Vermont. He had urgent news. President Warren G. Harding was dead, and Calvin Coolidge, who had to be roused from sleep, needed to be the new president.
The Coolidges didn’t even have electricity. But there, in the early hours of August 3, Calvin Coolidge took the…