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Calvin Coolidge: A free and enlightened press, by this means, becomes one of the safeguards of liberty.

On the recordApril 7, 1926
A free and enlightened press, by this means, becomes one of the safeguards of liberty.
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Calvin Coolidge
Republican · Vermont

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Address Before the First Pan American Congress of Journalists, Washington, D.C.

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