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Calvin Coolidge: So that while I know that the press oftentimes has to speculate some and draw deductions of positions when our foreign…

On the recordApril 14, 1927
So that while I know that the press oftentimes has to speculate some and draw deductions of positions when our foreign relations are concerned, over a matter that is somewhat delicate there is grave danger that anything of that kind may do considerable harm and ought to be resorted to only on occasions when the press is pretty certain that it is going to be right.
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Calvin Coolidge
Republican · Vermont

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