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Calvin Coolidge
@calvincoolidge· Republican · VT· Nov 29, 1923

There are quite a number of opinions of the Attorney General on it from time to time.

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Calvin Coolidge
@calvincoolidge· Republican · VT· Nov 29, 1923

If a criminal contempt is committed, which I understand was claimed in this case, then it brings it on the other side of the court.

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Calvin Coolidge
@calvincoolidge· Republican · VT· Nov 26, 1923

You will be perfectly safe in following the terms of the proclamation for information about what I am going to do.

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Calvin Coolidge
@calvincoolidge· Republican · VT· Nov 26, 1923

We are anxious, by maintaining educational institutions, to show them the way toward good government, and by the example that we are able to set there of providing a sound government for the Philippine Islands, one that will be able to…

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Calvin Coolidge
@calvincoolidge· Republican · VT· Nov 26, 1923

NO. They only have one day in the school where they attend, so that they will not be able to come down.

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Calvin Coolidge
@calvincoolidge· Republican · VT· Nov 26, 1923

I think it is generally recognized that our presence there is not so much an advantage to us as a very large bill of expense, but that it was an obligation which we had undertaken when we received the Philippine Islands from the Spanish…

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Calvin Coolidge
@calvincoolidge· Republican · VT· Nov 26, 1923

I suppose my own position is the well-known position that has been reiterated from time to time by the Government of the United States, of a desire to see the Philippines under self-government as soon as we felt warranted in withdrawing.

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