Calvin Coolidge actually said...

"I am very glad to hand over to them the work of doing something for the farmer if they will do it, but they haven't been able to accomplish very much, and therefore I was hopeful that this farm confer..."

"They made some recommendations about legislation."

"But there does seem to be a very determined opposition on the part of those who act as distributors, not all of them, but quite a number of them, to any assistance being rendered the farmer."

"I have been going more particularly on my confidence in people that have made recommendations and not on my particular knowledge of the recommendations that have been made."