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Mother Jones meeting with President Calvin Coolidge, September 16, 1924.
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Mother Jones, later in life, speaking with President Calvin Coolidge in 1924.

Credit: Library of Congress

In 1924, "the grandmother of all agitators" met with president Calvin Coolidge in the Washington D.C. to endorse his bid for reelection, then posed for pictures on the White House lawn. What, if anything, the two agreed upon in their conversation remains unknown.

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