Coolidge: Rediscovering An American President (2023)

Coolidge: Rediscovering An American President

2023

Documentary

Synopsis

The first major documentary about CALVIN COOLIDGE, the man Ronald Reagan called “one of our most underrated presidents." The year 1923 brought one of the most unusual presidential inaugurations in American history. Vice President Calvin Coolidge was asleep at his childhood home in rural Vermont when the news came in: President Warren Harding was dead. By candlelight, Coolidge’s own father, a notary public, administered the oath of office to the new president. A century later, Coolidge stands as perhaps America’s most misunderstood and unjustly neglected president. A landmark new documentary film changes that

Credits

Director

Paul G. Sanderson III

Cast

Calvin Coolidge as Self (Archive Footage)

Edith Jones as Self

George Nash as Self

Grace Goodhue Coolidge as Self (Archive Footage)

Herbert Hoover as Self (Archive Footage)

Janice Rogers Brown as Self

John Dumville as Self

Kristi Noem as Self