The daughter of a family of undertakers and musicians, she watched members of Congress, met President Calvin Coolidge, and developed a lifelong respect for the US democratic experiment.

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After congressional resistance compromised their first legislation so badly that an editorial in this newspaper assailed lawmakers for "hazing the president, " Coolidge and Mellon redoubled their effort.

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President Reagan recognized Coolidge's achievement, and upon taking office in 1981 he had a neglected Coolidge picture restored to a place of honor near Lincoln and Jefferson in the Cabinet Room.

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That was Charles Dawes, vice president under Calvin Coolidge.

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It is too much to hope that President Obama would take Coolidge's example to heart.

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Then there's Martha Coolidge, the first woman to become President of the Directors Guild of America.

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In 1923, Calvin Coolidge was sworn in as the 30th president after Warren G.

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And Vermont's Calvin Coolidge, our nation's 30th president, could point with pride to his state's willingness to sacrifice in the service of others.

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The capital contains no significant memorial to Coolidge, who is also the last President not to have a government-run Presidential library, one of those ever larger pyramids now speckling a land supposedly without pharaohs.

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