"Message to Congress on Nicaragua"

Message

By: Calvin Coolidge

Date: January 10, 1927

Source: Coolidge, Calvin. "Message to Congress on Nicaragua, January 10, 1927." Congressional Record, 69th Congress, 2nd session, 1927, vol. 68, 1324–1326. Reprinted in Romero, Francine Sanders, ed. Presidents from Theodore Roosevelt through Coolidge: Debating the Issues in Pro and Con Primary Documents. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2000, 215–217.

About the Author: Calvin Coolidge (1872–1933), the nation's thirtieth president, spent most of his life in politics. A conservative Republican, he rose through the ranks from Northampton, Massachusetts, city councilor to Massachusetts governor in the span of two decades. As governor, Coolidge gained national recognition when he intervened in a Boston police strike in 1919. The following year he was nominated by his...