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On the recordMay 29, 1927
While the foreign relations of this country are becoming more and more important, and constitute a field to which it will be necessary for our Government and our people to give much more attention than is now realized, yet it is our domestic affairs that must always assume the first rank.
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Calvin Coolidge
Republican · Vermont

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Address on Memorial Day at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia

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