Secrets & Scandals Of America’s First Ladies

Making Fun of the President’s Libido

The farmer told Grace that the rooster “performed” this way several times a day. She insisted that he tell that to the president and when the farmer did, the president asked if the rooster limited his prowess to the same hen. The red-faced farmer told him that the rooster copulated several different hens. The president’s response? “Tell that to Mrs. Coolidge.” Aside from her good-humored marriage to Calvin, Grace’s lifelong passion was the education of deaf children. She studied lip reading at Clarke Schools for Hearing and Speech, where she later became a teacher. Not only was Grace the First Lady of the U.S., she was also Second Lady as well.