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Calvin Coolidge: There are a great many Americans that go over there that undertake to say and do things that do not represent the…

On the recordDecember 30, 1926
There are a great many Americans that go over there that undertake to say and do things that do not represent the position of the American Government and I think oftentimes result in misleading foreign people and foreign governments.
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Calvin Coolidge
Republican · Vermont

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