Calvin Coolidge actually said...
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.
Context
Excerpts of the President's News Conference at White Pine Camp in Paul Smiths, New York
09/13/1926