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“ALWAYS FIND OUT WHAT YOUR MOTHERTHINKS
IS RIGHT ANDTHEN DO IT”
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COOLIDGE, CALVIN. Autograph Letter Signed, as Vice-President Elect, to “My
dear Allan,” advising a young correspondent. 1 page, 8vo, with integral blank,“Office of the
Governor” stationery; horizontal fold, minor soiling at left edge. (TFC)
Boston, 28 November 1920
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Thank you for your note.Always find out what your mother thinks is right and then do it.”
INTHEWAKE OFTHETEAPOT DOME SCANDAL
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COOLIDGE, CALVIN.Typed Letter Signed, as President, to NY lawyer Noah C.
Rodgers, expressing pleasure at his high regard of the new Attorney General. 1 page, 4to,
White House stationery, with integral blank; horizontal fold. (TFC)
Washington, 12 April 1924
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It is always a pleasure to have the support of a man like yourself in the choice of an important
public official, and I am very glad to know that you think so highly of the new Attorney
General. I believe that he will uphold the best traditions of the Department.”
At the end of March, 1928, Coolidge dismissed his Attorney General, Harry M. Daugherty,
because of his alleged—and never substantiated—involvement in the “Teapot Dome” scandal.
The Teapot Dome Oil Field in WY was one of the government-owned fields leased by
Secretary of the Interior Albert Bacon Fall to private companies in 1922. It was discovered that
Fall was accepting bribes in exchange for arranging the lucrative leases, and he was sentenced to
prison. In 1924, the dean of Columbia Law School, Harlan F. Stone, replaced Daugherry,
becoming an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court in 1925, and Chief Justice in 1941.
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