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World Learders in 1928

The American President in 1928

President: Calvin Coolidge

Calvin Coolidge

He is often referred to as "Silent Cal". He gained a reputation as a small-government conservative.He restored public confidence in the White House after the scandals of his predecessor's administration, and left office with considerable popularity . Coolidge's best-known initiative was the Kellogg-Briand Pact of 1928, named for Coolidge's Secretary of State, Frank B. Kellogg, and French foreign minister Aristide Briand. The treaty, ratified in 1929, committed signatories including the U.S., the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, and Japan to "renounce war, as an instrument of national policy in their relations with one another . Coolidge had been lukewarm on the choice of Hoover as his successor; on one occasion he remarked that "for six years that man has given me unsolicited advice?all of it bad .

Vice President

Charles G. Dawes

Charles G. Dawes was an American banker and politician who was the thirtieth Vice President of the United States. For his work on the Dawes Plan for World War I reparations he was a co-recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize .Dawes' Vice Presidency was one of the most disastrous on record. Soon after his election he sent an insulting letter to President Coolidge informing him that he would not be attending cabinet meetings. This is believed to be the beginning of a feud between the two which brought the Vice Presidency to its nadir for the 20th century . Having insulted the President, he then proceeded to publicly insult the entire US Senate. The inauguration of the Vice President was held in the Senate Chamber in those days, and the VP 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 things that Senators held dear.Everyone was so shocked at the speech that President Coolidge's own inaugural address was completely overshadowed, leaving him even angrier at Dawes than ever before.

Prime Minister of Australia

Stanley Bruce

President of Germany

Paul von Hindenburg

Hindenburg first came to national attention, at the age of sixty-six, as the victor at Tannenberg in 1914. In 1925 to be elected as the second President of Germany.