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Throughout the trying ceremonies the President and Mrs. Coolidge preserved great self-control. Only at the grave, she wept a little, softly. Several members of the Cabinet-Mr. Hughes, Mr. Weeks, Mr. New-appeared deeply moved. C. Bascom Slemp wept. After the interment, the Coolidges retired to the Coolidge home. Colonel Coolidge was persuaded to accompany the President back to Washington. Mr. Coolidge called his son John to the doorway and marked his height upon the doorframe with the legend "J.C. 1924." On the same frame were other marks for both "J.C." and "C.C." with various years. To these...
...American people will know that they are dealing with a system; that even though Hanna, Quay and Penrose are dead, their spirits go marching on in the personages of the Three Musketeers of present-day Republicanism? Butler, Stearns and Slemp. These bosses are 'doing business in the same old way, according...
...Butler had failed to secure his choice for Vice President, he still held the reins. With the organization of the new National Committee he took control as Chairman, and Slemp returned to Washington?as Secretary to the President. The Secretary's feelings can be imagined. His accumulated political wisdom had in no small degree been responsible for Mr. Coolidge's nomination. Quietly he had led the southern delegations into the Coolidge fold. He had wrought to give political power to the President, and now Mr. Coolidge chose to entrust that power to a man who not only went contrary...
Then C. Bascom Slemp marched into the President's private office. He remained there for an hour and 45 min- utes. One reliable correspondent, Frank R. Kent, of the Baltimore Sun, stated flatly: "Mr. Slemp was mad when he came back from Cleveland, and he was mad when he went into the President's office yesterday morning and resigned, because that is exactly what he did." Mr. Slemp said such a statement was "much stronger than the facts." At any rate the President pacified him. When Mr. Slemp emerged, he announced that he had not resigned, that he was going...
...Slemp's future position is not clear. The extreme interpretation was that he had in all but name been discharged from...