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Calvin Coolidge: Nearly everyone connects them with economy in Government expenditures. But that is not the real answer.

On the recordJanuary 29, 1928
Nearly everyone connects them with economy in Government expenditures. But that is not the real answer.
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Calvin Coolidge
Republican · Vermont

Editor's note · Context

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

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