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Calvin Coolidge: It leaves the United States Government also to pay all the major costs of maintenance, which it has never done before.

On the recordApril 9, 1928
It leaves the United States Government also to pay all the major costs of maintenance, which it has never done before.
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Calvin Coolidge
Republican · Vermont

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Excerpts of the President's News Conference

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