Rebecca the raccoon arrived at the White House in November 1926 by way of ... little critter to his Thanksgiving table, President Calvin Coolidge opened his home; Rebecca was spared, and the ...

This first centennial of the Calvin Coolidge presidency is as good a time as any to revisit an old-fashioned American idea: that families living in the White House kept pets because they liked pets.

John Calvin Coolidge came into the world there on July ... US Mail bags to a less expensive fabric and scoured the White House budget for savings. In a hardscrabble place like Plymouth Notch ...

He acceded to the White House when Warren Harding died suddenly ... as I learned upon viewing a fine new documentary from the Calvin Coolidge Presidential Foundation. ”I had the conventional ...

Calvin Coolidge was inaugurated in a small room just across the road from the house where he was born, hours before dawn, with his father, unshaven and collarless, handing him the well thumbed ...

President Calvin Coolidge, first lady Grace Coolidge, Vice President Charles Dawes, and second lady Caro Dawes posed together at the White House before leaving for the inauguration. Calvin ...

A newspaper clipping shows first lady Grace Coolidge holding Rebecca the raccoon at the 1927 White House Easter egg roll. – Courtesy Photo/Calvin Coolidge Presidential Library & Museum ...