Rebecca the raccoon arrived at the White House in November 1926 by way of a Mississippi admirer, with assurances of a “toothsome flavor” befitting the president’s Thanksgiving feast. But rather than ...
If Americans know anything at all about Calvin Coolidge, U.S. president No. 30, they know he had a pet raccoon. The Coolidge White House (1923-1929) has not been enshrined in high school curricula. It ...
FARGO, N.D. (Valley News Live) - Let’s look now to “Silent Cal” - Calvin Coolidge. Before becoming the 30th president, Coolidge was born on the Fourth of July in 1872. When he was 23, he graduated ...