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Calvin Coolidge: How the hero of this exploit was revealed, not as a reckless adventurer, but as an able, sober-minded, modest young man…

On the recordNovember 13, 1927
How the hero of this exploit was revealed, not as a reckless adventurer, but as an able, sober-minded, modest young man of high and unselfish purpose, has now passed into history.
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Calvin Coolidge
Republican · Vermont

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Address at the Awarding to Col. Charles A. Lindbergh by the National Geographic Society of the Hubbard Medal, Washington, D....

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