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The second inauguration of Calvin Coolidge as
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, was held on Wednesday, March 4, 1925, at the East Portico of the
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This was the 35th presidential inauguration and marked the commencement of the second and only full term of Calvin Coolidge as president and the only term of Charles G. Dawes as
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. Chief Justice
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, who had served as president from 1909 to 1913, administered the oath of office. This was the first inauguration on which a former U.S. president administered the Oath and the first to be broadcast nationally on radio. The vice-presidential oath of office was administered by the president pro tempore of the United States Senate, Albert B. Cummins. At the time, vice presidents were sworn into office in the Senate Chamber of the capitol, and would give an inaugural address before everyone headed on to the outside platform where the president would take the oath. Dawes made a fiery, half-hour address denouncing the rules of the Senate, the seniority system and many other Senate customs.Hatfield, M. O. (1997). Vice Presidents of the United States, 1789-1993. Senate Historical Office. Washington: United States Government Printing Office Coolidge's address was barely mentioned in the news reports the next day.


See also

* Presidency of Calvin Coolidge *
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 evenin ...
* 1924 United States presidential election


References


Video of Coolidge's Second Inauguration (via YouTube)Text of Coolidge's Inaugural Address
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