Calvin Coolidge actually said...

"I think we have sufficient forces there for rescue purposes and to do everything that could be done in that direction."

"The Navy Department has reported to me that their information is that one American there has been killed and the American Consulate attacked and the Consul and his staff driven out."

"There are some 125 or 150 Americans still within the city supposed to be at the University and their safety is naturally giving us a good deal of concern."

"We have some peculiar interests in Nicaragua, on account of our right to build a canal there and establish a naval station."