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Ridiculous History

Calvin Coolidge Skipped Town and Went Fishing for Three Months (While He was President)

Ridiculous History

iHeartPodcasts

History, Society & Culture

4.24.7K Ratings

🗓️ 11 March 2020

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Widely known as a taciturn man who liked public gatherings even less than he liked people, Calvin Coolidge was often ridiculed by the press -- reporters regularly followed his movements in hopes of gathering new, ridiculous anecdotes about him. So it's no surprise that about 30 reporters followed him when he headed off for a fishing-themed vacation in the Black Hills of South Dakota... but what happens when the President decides his three-week vacation will last for three months?

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Picture Miami. Picture its beaches. Picture three radio journalists assassinated in cold blood.

0:09.2

This is silenced, the radio murders.

0:12.4

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0:17.2

The mastermind has never been caught. To find him, we had to go deep into a world of drugs and darkness.

0:24.4

And there were these hints of a much bigger conspiracy.

0:30.8

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0:37.5

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0:44.8

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and we teach you how to live with more joy and less anxiety.

1:03.2

Learn what good mental health can mean for you, especially now during mental health awareness month.

1:08.7

Listen to the one you feed on the iHot Radio app, Apple podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

1:15.2

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1:19.2

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1:22.8

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1:25.6

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1:28.7

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At the end, they pick a film to go and neck off in a take to heaven.

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