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Calvin Coolidge: Citizenship in America is not a private enterprise, but a public function.

On the recordApril 18, 1926
Citizenship in America is not a private enterprise, but a public function.
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Calvin Coolidge
Republican · Vermont

Editor's note · Context

Address Before the Daughters of the American Revolution, Washington, D.C.

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