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Calvin Coolidge: Despite the heroic efforts of both the executive branch and the legislative branch of the Government, it has required…

On the recordJanuary 29, 1928
Despite the heroic efforts of both the executive branch and the legislative branch of the Government, it has required eight and one-third years to reduce the debt by $8,500,000,000.
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Calvin Coolidge
Republican · Vermont

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Address at the Fourteenth Regular Meeting of the Business Organization of the Government, Washington, D.C.

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