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Calvin Coolidge: I want to get the Message done so that it can be early in the hands of the press and that leads me to make a suggestion…

On the recordNovember 15, 1928
I want to get the Message done so that it can be early in the hands of the press and that leads me to make a suggestion that is bom of my past experience, that the advance copies that are given out are given out exclusively for the use of the press.
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Calvin Coolidge
Republican · Vermont

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