Subjects – Coolidge, Calvin
A Joint Session of Congress memorializing President Woodrow Wilson
December 15, 1924
On this date, Dr. Edwin Anderson Alderman, president of the University of Virginia, addressed a Joint Session of Congress memorializing his close friend, the late President Woodrow Wilson.
The Inauguration of President Calvin Coolidge in 1925
March 04, 1925
On this date, the first national radio broadcast of an inauguration occurred when President Calvin Coolidge took the oath of office on the East Front of the Capitol.
A Joint Session to commemorate the completion of the Washington Monument
February 22, 1927
On this date, Congress held a Joint Session to commemorate the birthday of George Washington and to inaugurate elaborate planning of festivities for the 1932 bicentennial of the first President’s birth.
Thomas Edison’s Congressional Gold Medal
May 21, 1928
The House of Representatives voted to approve H.J. Res. 243, to award inventor Thomas A. Edison a Congressional Gold Medal.