COOLIDGE, CALVIN, President. Typed manuscript signed ("Calvin Coolidge"), a tribute to President George Washington, n.p., n.d. 1 page, 4to, 279 x 212 (11 x 8 1/2 in.), BOLDLY SIGNED. COOLIDGE EXTOLLS WASHINGTON "Wherever men love liberty we find a veneration for the name of George Washington...Although he, like Lincoln, did not have [the] opportunity to take a college degree, yet, like the Great Emancipator, the Father of His Country had the advantage of working with a citizenship which was well permeated with college men....It was as a comprehending executive that Washington appears to have excelled. He could not have written the Declaration of Independence, yet, as a statesman, he was easily the superior of Jefferson. He could not have prepared the intricate report of manufactures. Yet he was a far better business man than Hamilton... The clearness of his intellect, the soundness of his judgment, the wisdom of his counsel, the disinterested partriotism of his actions are constantly revealed to us with a new and compelling force. The reverence for his memory continues to increase..."
COOLIDGE, CALVIN, President. Typed manuscript signed ("Calvin Coolidge"), a tribute to President George Washington, n.p., n.d. 1 page, 4to, 279 x 212 (11 x 8 1/2 in.), BOLDLY SIGNED. COOLIDGE EXTOLLS WASHINGTON "Wherever men love liberty we find a veneration for the name of George Washington...Although he, like Lincoln, did not have [the] opportunity to take a college degree, yet, like the Great Emancipator, the Father of His Country had the advantage of working with a citizenship which was well permeated with college men....It was as a comprehending executive that Washington appears to have excelled. He could not have written the Declaration of Independence, yet, as a statesman, he was easily the superior of Jefferson. He could not have prepared the intricate report of manufactures. Yet he was a far better business man than Hamilton... The clearness of his intellect, the soundness of his judgment, the wisdom of his counsel, the disinterested partriotism of his actions are constantly revealed to us with a new and compelling force. The reverence for his memory continues to increase..."
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