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Throughout the trying ceremonies the President and Mrs. Coolidge preserved great self-control. Only at the grave, she wept a little, softly. Several members of the Cabinet-Mr. Hughes, Mr. Weeks, Mr. New-appeared deeply moved. C. Bascom Slemp wept. After the interment, the Coolidges retired to the Coolidge home. Colonel Coolidge was persuaded to accompany the President back to Washington. Mr. Coolidge called his son John to the doorway and marked his height upon the doorframe with the legend "J.C. 1924." On the same frame were other marks for both "J.C." and "C.C." with various years. To these...
...following the Cleveland Convention. But the Convention was only its immediate cause. Its ultimate cause lay further back, in the selection by Mr. Coolidge of his political advisers. At the beginning, the President had Frank W. Stearns, Boston business man, whose hobby is politics. Next, the President chose C. Bascom Slemp as his Secretary. Slemp is a man whose element is politics. His assistance was as necessary to the newly-made President as the assistance of a social secretary is to a newly-rich woman. With the approach of the pre-Convention campaign, Mr. Coolidge selected (by and with...
...Then C. Bascom Slemp marched into the President's private office. He remained there for an hour and 45 min- utes. One reliable correspondent, Frank R. Kent, of the Baltimore Sun, stated flatly: "Mr. Slemp was mad when he came back from Cleveland, and he was mad when he went into the President's office yesterday morning and resigned, because that is exactly what he did." Mr. Slemp said such a statement was "much stronger than the facts." At any rate the President pacified him. When Mr. Slemp emerged, he announced that he had not resigned, that he was going...
...issue in this case?" inquired a Committeeman. "It has .this to do with it: they selected a man that no white man or black man in Georgia will stand for." The turning point came when Mr. Johnson presented a letter written by the late President Harding to C. Bascom Slemp saying it had been a blunder to recognize the Phillips faction instead of the Johnson faction. Mr. Johnson added that President Harding had told him last Summer: "That has been the blunder of my life. I'm going to set it right as soon as I get back from...
Calvin Coolidge stayed at his desk in Washington, letting William M. Butler from Massachusetts and C. Bascom Slemp from Virginia carry his banners to the Convention Hall...