Excerpts of the President's News Conference
12/15/1924
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That didn't seem to be practical to me.
The Senate has a way of reaching a vote when it wants to and I have no doubt that that will be the result on the cruiser...
Heroic effort was needed to substitute national loyalty for department and bureau loyalty.
I invite the attention of the Senate to the accompanying report by the Secretary of State on the subject.