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Calvin Coolidge: The convention and protocol had my approval and were signed by the American minister at Ottawa by virtue of full powers…

On the recordJanuary 15, 1929
The convention and protocol had my approval and were signed by the American minister at Ottawa by virtue of full powers issued to him by me.
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Calvin Coolidge
Republican · Vermont

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Message to the Senate Transmitting a Treaty with Great Britain on the Preservation of Niagara Falls

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