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Warren Harding: “Not only have I no apology for what has been done in the interest of the agricultural community; not only do I regard it…”

On the recordJune 27, 1923
Not only have I no apology for what has been done in the interest of the agricultural community; not only do I regard it as one of the monumental achievements of the last generation in developing our country’s institutions, but I venture that we might with profit to the whole people consider the possibility of effecting an analogous organization to promote and encourage, through measures of credit and finance, a proper organization of the consuming community in both cities and country.
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Warren Harding
Republican · Ohio

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Address in Idaho Falls, Idaho

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