Excerpts of the President's News Conference
03/17/1924
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One of the strongest safeguards of the integrity of official action is publicity.
In no small degree you are the keepers of the public conscience.
In a republic the field which is open to the press as an instrument of clean and sound government is limitless.
It is perhaps stating the obvious to say that the press should be patriotic.