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Calvin Coolidge: “America has ever been the most generous to those who have rendered service in time of war.”

On the recordOctober 18, 1927
America has ever been the most generous to those who have rendered service in time of war.
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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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