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Calvin Coolidge: The advance may have been too rapid in some cases, but there can be no retreat.

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The advance may have been too rapid in some cases, but there can be no retreat.
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Calvin Coolidge
Republican · Vermont

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Coolidge acknowledges that while progress may have been rapid, there is no option to retreat from it.

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