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Calvin Coolidge: “I don't think in all my experience, which has been very large with people that come before me in and out of the…”

On the recordDecember 13, 1928
I don't think in all my experience, which has been very large with people that come before me in and out of the Government with proposals for spending money, I have ever had any proposal from anyone as to what could be done to raise money, and very few suggestions of what could be done to save any money.
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Calvin Coolidge
Republican · Vermont

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