The Calvin Coolidge Presidential Foundation Announces The Calvin Coolidge Prizes for Adult and Youth Journalism Awarded November 6 at New York Dinner with Sen. Phil Gramm, Chrystia Freeland, MP and Larry Kudlow

PLYMOUTH NOTCH, Vt., Sept. 4, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- The Trustees of the Calvin Coolidge Presidential Foundation – the official Foundation dedicated to the thirtieth President of the United States – announced today the Foundation's second annual $20,000 Coolidge Prize for Journalism, which honors writing in the spirit and style of President Coolidge.

The prize will be awarded on Thursday, November 6, 2014, in New York City at a Metropolitan Club gala dinner featuring guest speakers Sen. Phil Gramm, Chrystia Freeland, MP, and Larry Kudlow, CNBC Senior Correspondent. At the dinner, Gramm and Freeland will debate the importance of income inequality. Kudlow will offer remarks.

"These prizes encourage Americans to learn about and share Coolidge's principles," said Matthew Denhart, Foundation executive director.

"The Prize exposes the astoundingly modern ideas of this forgotten leader," added Amity Shlaes, Foundation chairman.

The $20,000 Coolidge Prize will be awarded to the author for a submission of up to three published articles or blog posts of fewer than 800 words each. Last year's winner was Holman Jenkins of the Wall Street Journal.

The $1,500 Calvin Prize for Vermont Youth will honor the Vermont writer under 20 who produces a comment, published or unpublished, of under 1,000 words. This year's Calvin contest asks youth to address factors that affect their decision to stay in Vermont or move away. A $500 scholarship goes to the runner-up.

Prize submissions must be received by September 26. The Foundation is grateful for the support of the Thomas W. Smith Foundation and the National Notary Foundation. For more information, visit: Coolidgefoundation.org.

President Coolidge's emphases include:

- Sustaining a balanced budget.

- Cutting federal spending.

- Reducing the top tax rate to 25%.

- Civility in discourse.

- Federalism: "The nation can be inviolate only as it is insists Arizona be inviolate," Coolidge commented.

- Restraining the impulse to over-legislate: "Don't hurry to legislate. Give administration a chance to catch up with legislation," Coolidge urged colleagues.

- Favoring international law over arbitrary military intervention. Coolidge led a successful campaign to pass the Kellogg-Briand Pact, a treaty that outlawed war.

- Leaving a space in American life for faith and natural law. "Men do not make laws. They do but discover them," wrote Coolidge.

Coolidge Judges Include:

John Batchelor, Host, WABC's "The John Batchelor Show" 
Ken Chandler, Editor-in-Chief, Newsmax 
Gov. Mitchell E. Daniels, Jr., 49^th Governor of Indiana; President, Purdue University 
Matthew Denhart, Executive Director, Coolidge Foundation 
Gov. James H. Douglas, 80^th Governor of Vermont; Middlebury College 
Steve Forbes, Chairman, Forbes Media 
Jack Fowler, Publisher, National Review 
James H. Ottaway, Jr., Newspaper Executive 
Sergio Sarmiento, Leading Media Commentator in Mexico 
Amity Shlaes, "Coolidge" Author 
Cal Thomas, Columnist 
Milton G. Valera, President, National Notary Foundation 

Calvin judges include:            

Mimi Baird, Trustee Emerita, Coolidge Foundation 
Kate Bradley, Archivist 
Phil Camp, Publisher, The Vermont Standard 
James Cooke, Coolidge Impersonator 
John Dumville, Vermont Historian 
Jennifer Sayles Harville, Great Granddaughter of President Coolidge 
Mark Johnson, Host, WDEV's The Mark Johnson Show 
Diane Kemble, Education Director, Coolidge Foundation 
Catherine Nelson, CEO, Rutland Herald 
David Pietrusza, Coolidge Biographer 
Bill Schubart, Vermont Author 
Nicole Wanzer-Serrano, Debate Institutes at Dartmouth 
Owen J. Stearns, CEO, Excel Academy Charter School 
Rushad Thomas, Associate, Coolidge Foundation

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