Calvin Coolidge actually said...

"I should expect that under any commission that might be set up or any agency that might be used for the prosecution of this work, that it would be done in a business way."

"The work could go right on and the commission report to the next Congress, and on that report the next Congress would then legislate."

"It seems to me that the decision about that would be this—that this is something that the United States Government ought to do."

"I think it would be the best plan, so far as I can judge, to proceed to do this work in accordance with the present law; that is, through the War Department, the Chief of the Bureau of Engineers, and ..."