Calvin Coolidge actually said...

"If you can base the economic condition of the people on their appearance, the way they are dressed, the general appearance of prosperity, I should say that it was very good."

"The impression that struck me more than anything else was rather of a patriotic impression, an apparent general satisfaction with conditions in the country."

"I know that we have some war vessels in the harbor at Shanghai, and I think one or two others on the way there."

"That is the only purpose that America ever lands any Marines on foreign soil and they would have no other purpose in the present situation."