COOLIDGE CALVIN Typed Letter Signed as President to John A[p

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TOO BUSY TO ATTEND HARDING'S MEMORIAL SERVICE COOLIDGE, CALVIN. Typed Letter Signed, as President, to John A[ppleton] Stewart, declining to speak at Warren G. Harding's memorial service, and noting that he does not expect to leave Washington prior to the reconvening of Congress [in December]. 1 page, 4to, White House stationery; remnant of prior mounting overall verso, faint scattered staining, horizontal fold. (TFC) Washington, 19 September 1923

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"No invitation . . . would have a stronger appeal than . . . asking me to be the speaker at the Harding Memorial Services in New York. It brings our great loss to us with particular poignancy that those who had planned to welcome President Harding on his arrival in New York should now be preparing to pay honor to his memory.
". . . I am forced to ask you to present to the Committee my declination . . . . [I]n the midst of the endless problems which confront me, I could not prepare, at this time, anything which I should feel worthy of the occasion and of the man."