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<blockquote style="position: relative; padding-left: 55px;"><section><a href="https://oldfriends.live/users/paul/statuses/115234800979926932">Paul Chambers🚧 (paul@oldfriends.live)'s status on Saturday, 20-Sep-2025 14:24:01 JST</a><a href="https://oldfriends.live/@paul" title="paul@oldfriends.live"><img src="https://gnusocial.jp/avatar/42297-48-20240731021652.webp" width="48" height="48" alt="Paul Chambers🚧" style="position: absolute; left: 0; top: 0;">Paul Chambers🚧</a></section><article><p>This blew my mind away. </p><p>On August 2, 1923, President Harding died unexpectedly from a heart attack in San Francisco while on a speaking tour of the western United States. Vice President Calvin Coolidge was in Vermont visiting his family home, which had neither electricity nor a telephone, when he received word by messenger of Harding's death.  Coolidge dressed, said a prayer, and came downstairs to greet the reporters who had assembled. His father, a notary public and justice of the peace, administered the oath of office in the family's parlor by the light of a kerosene lamp at 2:47 a.m. on August 3, 1923, whereupon the new President of the United States returned to bed. <a href="https://oldfriends.live/tags/History" rel="tag">#History</a> </p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_inauguration_of_Calvin_Coolidge" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_inauguration_of_Calvin_Coolidge</a></p></article><footer><a rel="bookmark" href="https://gnusocial.jp/conversation/5659708#notice-11109919">In conversation</a><time datetime="2025-09-20T14:24:01+09:00" title="Saturday, 20-Sep-2025 14:24:01 JST">about 3 months ago</time> <span>from <span><a href="https://oldfriends.live/@paul/115234800979926932" rel="external" title="Sent from oldfriends.live via ActivityPub">oldfriends.live</a></span></span><a href="https://oldfriends.live/@paul/115234800979926932">permalink</a><h4>Attachments</h4><ol><li><label><a rel="external" href="https://gnusocial.jp/attachment/5233531">Calvin Coilidge taking the oath of office 1923 
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(Original Caption) How President Coolidge appeared in a room at his father's house when he took the oath of office by kerosene light is shown here. Coolidge took office following the death of President Harding. His father John is shown administering the oath at the elder Coolidge's home in Plymouth, Vermont.Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons</a></label><br><a href="https://media.oldfriends.live/oldfriends/media_attachments/files/115/234/793/357/916/677/original/ca035a85b23e4e86.png" rel="external">https://media.oldfriends.live/oldfriends/media_attachments/files/115/234/793/357/916/677/original/ca035a85b23e4e86.png</a></li><li><article><header><div>Domain not in remote thumbnail source whitelist: upload.wikimedia.org</div><h5><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_inauguration_of_Calvin_Coolidge">First inauguration of Calvin Coolidge</a></h5><div></div></header><div>The first inauguration of Calvin Coolidge as the 30th president of the United States was held on Friday, August 3, 1923, at the Coolidge Homestead in Plymouth Notch, Vermont, following the death of President Warren G. Harding the previous evening. The inauguration – the sixth non-scheduled, extraordinary inauguration to ever take place – marked the commencement of the first term (a partial term of 1 year, 213 days) of Calvin Coolidge as president. The presidential oath of office was administered to the new president by his father, John Calvin Coolidge Sr., who was a Vermont notary public and justice of the peace. On Tuesday, August 21, 1923, President Coolidge repeated the oath before Justice Adolph A. Hoehling Jr. of the Court of the District of Columbia at the Willard Hotel, Washington, D.C.Midnight, August 2–3, 1923
Vice President Calvin Coolidge was visiting his family property, the Coolidge Homestead, in Vermont, which did not have electricity or a telephone, when he received word by messenger of Harding's death. As the new president, Coolidge...</div><footer></footer></article></li></ol></footer></blockquote>

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Paul Chambers🚧 (paul@oldfriends.live)'s status on Saturday, 20-Sep-2025 14:24:01 JST Paul Chambers🚧
This blew my mind away.
On August 2, 1923, President Harding died unexpectedly from a heart attack in San Francisco while on a speaking tour of the western United States. Vice President Calvin Coolidge was in Vermont visiting his family home, which had neither electricity nor a telephone, when he received word by messenger of Harding's death. Coolidge dressed, said a prayer, and came downstairs to greet the reporters who had assembled. His father, a notary public and justice of the peace, administered the oath of office in the family's parlor by the light of a kerosene lamp at 2:47 a.m. on August 3, 1923, whereupon the new President of the United States returned to bed. #History
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  First inauguration of Calvin Coolidge
  The first inauguration of Calvin Coolidge as the 30th president of the United States was held on Friday, August 3, 1923, at the Coolidge Homestead in Plymouth Notch, Vermont, following the death of President Warren G. Harding the previous evening. The inauguration – the sixth non-scheduled, extraordinary inauguration to ever take place – marked the commencement of the first term (a partial term of 1 year, 213 days) of Calvin Coolidge as president. The presidential oath of office was administered to the new president by his father, John Calvin Coolidge Sr., who was a Vermont notary public and justice of the peace. On Tuesday, August 21, 1923, President Coolidge repeated the oath before Justice Adolph A. Hoehling Jr. of the Court of the District of Columbia at the Willard Hotel, Washington, D.C. Midnight, August 2–3, 1923 Vice President Calvin Coolidge was visiting his family property, the Coolidge Homestead, in Vermont, which did not have electricity or a telephone, when he received word by messenger of Harding's death. As the new president, Coolidge...