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Calvin Coolidge: That is the only purpose that America ever lands any Marines on foreign soil and they would have no other purpose in the…

On the recordJune 4, 1925
That is the only purpose that America ever lands any Marines on foreign soil and they would have no other purpose in the present situation.
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Calvin Coolidge
Republican · Vermont

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