On the record
It will be helpful to ourselves and it will improve conditions among our debtors if funding and the settlement of defaulted interest may be negotiated.
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Warren G. Harding
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He suggests that negotiating funding and settling defaulted interest will benefit both the U.S. and its debtors.
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