Calvin Coolidge actually said...

"You can't start a criminal action on mere rumor."

"You know evidence is very difficult to secure."

"Of course the Government will do everything it can do to relieve that situation, and that is substantially all the declaration I can make about it."

"I don't foresee any change, answering an inquiry here, that may be brought about in the Russian policy of the United States by reason of his passing away."