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Lessons From The President Born On The Fourth Of July
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Lessons From The President Born On The Fourth Of July

"We are citizens before we are partisans"

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Ben Domenech
Jul 06, 2022
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“I feel I no longer fit in with these times.”

Our only president to be born on Independence Day, Calvin Coolidge was born on the Fourth of July, 1872, in the back of a small general store and post office in Plymouth Notch, Vermont. It is a stone’s throw away from where he would later be sworn in as President of the United States by his father, a justice …

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