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Calvin Coolidge: We are not striving to save the dollar at the expense of the public service.

On the recordJune 20, 1926
We are not striving to save the dollar at the expense of the public service.
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Calvin Coolidge
Republican · Vermont

Editor's note · Context

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

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