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Haley Connects Coolidge Anniversary to Immigrant Values, Warns Forgetting

7/4/2026

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Nikki Haley, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, wrote a column linking Coolidge’s 150th-anniversary speech to her Indian parents’ values and warned Americans may forget them.
She said her mother, an Indian graduate, died on July 4 2025, and her father, a professor, died a year earlier after family settled in South Carolina.
She recalled landlords refusing their housing and banning alcohol, Black guests, and resale without owner’s right of first refusal.

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Nikki Haley, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, wrote a column linking Coolidge’s 150th-anniversary speech to her Indian parents’ values and warned Americans may forget them.
She said her mother, an Indian graduate, died on July 4 2025, and her father, a professor, died a year earlier after family settled in South Carolina.
She recalled landlords refusing their housing and banning alcohol, Black guests, and resale without owner’s right of first refusal.