Political Quotes

On the recordSeptember 13, 1926
I think you have done rather better than I could have done, if I had undertaken to sit down twice a week and dictated a statement to be given out.
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Calvin Coolidge
Republican · Vermont

Editor's note · Context

Excerpts of the President's News Conference at White Pine Camp in Paul Smiths, New York

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