Editing Calvin Coolidge (section)

==Radio, film, and commemorations==
Despite his reputation as a quiet and even reclusive politician, Coolidge made use of the new medium of radio and made radio history several times while president. He made himself available to reporters, giving 520 press conferences, meeting with reporters more regularly than any president before or since.{{sfn|Greenberg|2006|p=7}} Coolidge's [[Second inauguration of Calvin Coolidge|second inauguration]] was the first presidential inauguration broadcast on radio. On December 6, 1923, his speech to Congress was broadcast on radio,{{sfn|Sobel|1998a|p=252}} the first presidential radio address.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Williams|first=Emrys|date=1967|title=The Presidential address|journal=Radio and Electronic Engineer|volume=33|issue=1|page=1|doi=10.1049/ree.1967.0001|issn=0033-7722}}</ref> 

Coolidge signed the [[Radio Act of 1927]], which assigned regulation of radio to the newly created [[Federal Radio Commission]]. On August 11, 1924, [[Theodore W. Case]], using the [[Phonofilm]] [[sound-on-film]] process he developed for [[Lee de Forest]], filmed Coolidge on the White House lawn, making him the first president to appear in a sound film, ''President Coolidge, Taken on the White House Grounds''.{{sfn|de Forest|1924}}<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://blogs.loc.gov/now-see-hear/2016/11/silent-cal-not-so-silent/|title=Silent Cal, Not So Silent {{!}} Now See Hear!|last=Mashon|first=Mike|date=November 3, 2016|website=blogs.loc.gov|access-date=February 9, 2019}}</ref> When [[Charles Lindbergh]] arrived in Washington on a U.S. Navy ship after his celebrated 1927 trans-Atlantic flight, Coolidge welcomed him back to the U.S. and presented him with the [[Medal of Honor]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.upi.com/Archives/1927/05/23/Medal-of-Honor-will-be-awarded-to-Lindbergh/8218071432811/|title=Medal of Honor will be awarded to Lindbergh|author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.-->|date=May 23, 1927|website=UPI|language=en|access-date=February 9, 2019}}</ref> and the event was filmed.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YerctYmO-6k| archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211124/YerctYmO-6k| archive-date=November 24, 2021 | url-status=live|title=Lindbergh honored by President Calvin Coolidge|last=Unknown|date=1927|website=Periscope Film|access-date=February 9, 2019}}{{cbignore}}</ref>

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File:Ccoolidge.jpeg|Official presidential portrait of Coolidge, 1932
File:Sesquicentennial american independence half dollar commemorative obverse.jpg|The [[United States Sesquicentennial coinage|Sesquicentennial of American Independence Half Dollar]], minted in 1926
File:Calvin Coolidge 1938 Issue-$5.jpg|Coolidge on a 1938 postage stamp
File:Coolidge with press.jpg|Coolidge with reporters and cameramen, 1924
File:Calvin Coolidge video montage.ogg|Collection of video clips of President Coolidge
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