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Calvin Coolidge: I am convinced that our present economic and social conditions warrant a limitation of those to be admitted.

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I am convinced that our present economic and social conditions warrant a limitation of those to be admitted.
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Calvin Coolidge
Republican · Vermont

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Coolidge expresses his belief that current economic and social conditions justify limiting immigration.

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