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Calvin Coolidge: We are not going to get any farm legislation without opposition, and the opposition will apparently come from the farmer…

On the recordFebruary 26, 1925
We are not going to get any farm legislation without opposition, and the opposition will apparently come from the farmer when of course those with experience know very well that it originates with others.
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Calvin Coolidge
Republican · Vermont

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