(3) Base Camp

Coolidge might throw in a few advanced vocab words here and there, but in general his speech is pretty easy to understand. The only thing that makes it tricky is that he references recent historical events without a lot of explanation, sometimes pretty obliquely. But if you review a basic history of the time period, you'll get what he's saying.

The toughest part of the speech might be staying awake while reading it. It lacks a certain exciting something.