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Calvin Coolidge: Had their counsels prevailed, America would have been destroyed.

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Had their counsels prevailed, America would have been destroyed.
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Calvin Coolidge
Republican · Vermont

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Coolidge warns that had certain voices prevailed, America would have faced dire consequences.

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