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Calvin Coolidge: If it is a meritorious project, it ought to go through on its own steam, and not be hitched on to something else.

On the recordApril 30, 1928
If it is a meritorious project, it ought to go through on its own steam, and not be hitched on to something else.
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Calvin Coolidge
Republican · Vermont

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