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Calvin Coolidge: “Now, I don't regard, as you men know, that it is at all necessary for the President to give out a verbatim statement of…”

On the recordSeptember 13, 1926
Now, I don't regard, as you men know, that it is at all necessary for the President to give out a verbatim statement of everything that may be discussed here, but rather to leave it to the different reporters, because they are reporters, and a great many times can do those things on the whole better than the President could do them and leave it to them to make their interpretation.
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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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