Certainly, I have no desire to do that and shouldn't want to be thought so lacking in appreciation of a man of his abilities as to think that he wasn't well qualified for any position in the Cabinet that he would be willing to accept.
Calvin Coolidge: “Certainly, I have no desire to do that and shouldn't want to be thought so lacking in appreciation of a man of his…”
On the recordApril 18, 1927
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