Calvin Coolidge actually said...

"I don't have Russia particularly in mind, but all the governments of Europe."

"The organization of the American Government is quite different from that of Europe, which probably results in European governments and certainly European people oftentimes being misled."

"There are a great many Americans that go over there that undertake to say and do things that do not represent the position of the American Government and I think oftentimes result in misleading foreig..."

"I never knew of any preliminary movement on the part of this Government to re-establish diplomatic relations with Russia."