The Making of a Hero: What Calvin Coolidge told Tom Lee at White House
President Calvin Coolidge meets Tom Lee in May 1925, just weeks after Lee rescued 32 people on the Mississippi River. Coolidge’s comments to Lee prompted Lee to cut short the visit to Washington D.C. (Memphis River Parks Partnership)
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A decade after the meeting, an unbylined column in The Commercial Appeal offered a reason behind Tom Lee’s decision to cut short his visit to the nation’s capital.
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