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Calvin Coolidge: “Our splendid Treasury is not a bottomless, automatically replenishing fountain of fiscal supply, and its outflow must be…”

On the recordDecember 2, 1928
Our splendid Treasury is not a bottomless, automatically replenishing fountain of fiscal supply, and its outflow must be eternally watched and carefully and wisely directed into proper channels.
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Calvin Coolidge
Republican · Vermont

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1928 Budget Message

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