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A FIRST LADY WHO DESERVES A SECOND LOOK

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Extremely interesting and informative.

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A FIRST LADY WHO DESERVES A SECOND LOOK

 

The last Saturday in April marks National First Ladies Day.  On this occasion, Grace Coolidge is likely to suffer from unjust neglect—much like her husband.


Just as historians tend to dismiss or ignore President Calvin Coolidge, they pay too little attention to his wife.


Grace was a fitting name for a woman known for her warmth and charm.  Biographer Robert Ferrell noted Grace Coolidge's "ability to meet anyone and make that person feel at home, that the first lady knew that individual as a friend."  While in the White House and for years afterward, Mrs. Coolidge had, in Ferrell's words, "a wondrous hold on the American people."


The vivacious Grace posed a sharp contrast with her shy, taciturn husband.  In her autobiography, Mrs. Coolidge acknowledged that marriage "has seldom united two people of more vastly different temperaments and tastes."


Grace Coolidge's tastes made her a figure of admiration.  [...]


https://www.coolidgereview.com/articles/underappreciated-first-lady

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06-11-2007 = NOA1 date (unknown to me).

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09-25-2007 = Touch (first-ever).

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