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Calvin Coolidge: Learning of this, the general requested to be relieved from command of the Army, but his request was disregarded.

On the recordOctober 18, 1927
Learning of this, the general requested to be relieved from command of the Army, but his request was disregarded.
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Calvin Coolidge
Republican · Vermont

Editor's note · Context

Address Accepting the Monument of Gen. George Gordon Meade at Washington, D.C.

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