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Ethel Barrymore was a guest at the White House in 1924 .Calvin Coolidge had not long been president fnoolwilg the death of President Warren Harding. (You will recall that Winston Churchill proposed marriage to Miss Barrymore but she declined.)Anyway, she asked Coolidge what kind of president he was planning to be?He replied: The people of America want a solemn ass for president and I do not plan to disappoint them. Later, the Coolidge family saw Ethel's brother John Barrymore in Shakespeare's tragedy Hamlet . Barrymore asked if the president had seen other productions of the play? Coolidge had; he'd seen A. E. Southern in the role.Barrymore asked: Which did you like best? Revealing great diplomacy Silent Cal said: His clothes were prettier.
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(VISITOR) AUTHOR'S NAME
Arjun
MESSAGE TIMESTAMP
18 december 2014, 08:26:19
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