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COOLIDGE PLANS AFTER MARCH 4 STILL IN DOUBT

By ROBERT MOOREFIELD
(U. P. Staff Correspondent)

Washington, Feb. 25 (UP) - What President Coolidge will do after he leaves the White House is a subject of much speculation in Washington now.

He has a strong feeling that the dignity of the presidential office requires an ex-President to conduct himself within certain circumscribed lines and he is averse to entering upon any employment which would constitute practically the selling of his name as ex-President to some large firm which desired to use his name for advertising purposes.

There are, however, a number of dignified activities to which the President may properly turn if he desires. Some have thought he might eventually become President of Amherst College in which he has always been strongly interested.

Former Presidents have followed a variety of callings after retiring from the chief executiveship Some either for gain or diversion, turned to banking, globe-trotting journalism, lecturing, wild game hunting farming, politics, the law, and educational and charitable services.

Various "Assignments"

Persons who insist they are "in the know," have assigned the President to positions as railroad executive, insurance firm director, educator, world traveler, banker, and author; but Mr. Coolidge himself has exercised the silence he has made famous and steadfastly declines to clear up the situation.

He is letting rumor take its whimsical course—and apparently enjoying it.

Recently the President told persons who questioned him about his work after March 4 that "one guess was as good as another."

He has made it known he wants to hold his future plans in abeyance until after he quits office. He has a strong sense of the ethics of the situation.

After all, Mr. Coolidge doesn't have to work unless he wants to. Unlike Jefferson, who left the White House so poor he feared his

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Coolidge May
Enter Field Of
Newspaper

While the customary "Coolidge
silence" prevails regarding the
nature of the work he will engage
in at the close of his administra-
tion on March 4, it has been learn-
ed on high authority in Washing-
ton that he is seriously consider-
ing embarking in the newspaper
field. His predecessor, Warren G.
Harding, was an editor.
Negotiations are said to have
been closed for Coolidge to af-
filate himself in an executive and
writing way with the operation of
a nationwide chain of daily news-
papers. The publisher controlling
the chain of newspaper is said to
have personally conducted the
negotiations by visiting the White
House on several occasions. The
salary mentioned is said to have
been so large that Coolidge had
to consider it.
While President Coolidge has
been going about the work of
packing up to leave the Executive
Mansion, remarking that "it is
easier to get into the White House
than it is to get out of it," so-
ciety leaders and Mrs. Coolidge's
host of other friends in Washing-
ton are "having a good cry over
her prospective departure."
Because of her charm, graciousness.
friendliness and sympathy, Mrs.
Coolidge has endeared herself to
the people of Washington, as per-
haps no other First Lady ever
did. She has been referred to as
"a million dollar asset to the Re-
publican party and her husband."

Coolidge Plans
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creditors would refuse to allow
him to leave Washington for his
home in Virginia, President Cool-
idge has a comfortable fortune of
nearly - so his friends say - half a
million. Interest from this alone
would permit Mr. Coolidge to live
in the unpretentious way that he
prefers.
It virtually is certain the Presi-
dent will return to his home at
Northampton, Mass., for a while
after his presidency. He still
maintains a home and law office
there; last November he person-
ally directed transfer of numerous
personal belongings from the
White House to his home. Later
he indicated it would be "quite na-
tural" for him to return to
Northampton "for a time at least."
According to reports here, Mr.
Coolidge is considering an extend-
ed world tour, on which he pos-
sibly might write his memoirs or
engage in other literary work for
his copy. Should he decide to
travel, he would follow the steps
of Fillmore, Pierce, Van Buren,
Grant, and Roosevelt.