“You lose,” the president deadpanned ... one of his biographers. A visit to the Calvin Coolidge Historic Site in Plymouth Notch, Vt., makes him considerably less puzzling.

Coolidge believed the nation needed fewer, not more, programs regardless of their purpose. Calvin Coolidge was not a forceful leader in matters of foreign affairs and often deferred to his ...

The first time Calvin Coolidge met Gutzon Borglum, the president agreed to the artist's scheme to mint commemorative coins. With the coins, Borglum hoped to raise funds to carve a mountain into ...