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Calvin Coolidge: My grandfather was ill for a long time before he passed away and I used to read that chapter of the Bible to him when I…

On the recordMarch 2, 1925
My grandfather was ill for a long time before he passed away and I used to read that chapter of the Bible to him when I was a small boy not more than four or five years old.
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Calvin Coolidge
Republican · Vermont

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Excerpts of the President's News Conference

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