Mr. Coolidge's Week

Mr. Coolidge's Week

P: The President received Major General Patrick, Chief of the Army Air Service, and the aviators who will take part in the Army's around-the-world flight to start from Los Angeles on March 15. "Bring home the bacon," said Mr. Coolidge.

P:At the request of George Busby Christian, Jr., Secretary to President Harding, President Coolidge withdrew from the Senate Mr. Christian's nomination for a seat on the Federal Trade Commission. Another member of the Commission had opposed the nomination and Mr. La Follette was mustering opposition in the Senate. P: Mr. Coolidge wrote to the National Negro Press Association, in convention at Nashville : "I hope your organization will devote itself to the promotion of high purposes, and be guided by practical ideals, as it has been in the past." P: The President nominated Henry P. Fletcher to be Ambassador at Rome, nominated Charles B. Warren to be Ambassador to Mexico, nominated William Phillips to be Ambassador to Belgium (see Page 2). P: Pugilist Dempsey called at the White House and was received by Mr. Coolidge as "one who has been before the public much longer than 1." P: In a radio address from the White House, President Coolidge said of George Washington: "After we have recounted his victories, after we have examined his record in public office, after we have recalled that he refused to be made King, we have not exhausted his greatness. We can best estimate him by not identifying him with some high place, but by thinking of him as one of ourselves. When all detailed description fails, it is enough to say he was a great man."

P:President and Mrs. Coolidge attended the finish of a 10-mile marathon race in the Capital and saw one J. Movis, of the Nativity Catholic Club of Philadelphia, break the tape, a winner. P: Mr. and Mrs. Coolidge, accompanied by C. Bascom Slemp, Miss Virginia Burke (a descendant of the Washington and the Jefferson families) and Congressman Moore of Virginia, went from Washington to the nearby city of Alexandria on the Sunday following Washington's birthday. They attended services in Christ Church, of which President Washington was a vestryman, and sat in the Washington pew.