Calvin Coolidge actually said...
So far as any information has come to me it seems to bear out the supposition that I made either at the last or the next to the last [press] conference that Mr. Clementel hadn't made any definite statements that undertook to bind the French Government, suggesting that the suggestion was made about that they wouldn't do anything about their debt.
Context
Excerpts of the President's News Conference
01/01/1925