Calvin Coolidge actually said...

We are anxious, by maintaining educational institutions, to show them the way toward good government, and by the example that we are able to set there of providing a sound government for the Philippine Islands, one that will be able to maintain the freedom and independence of the people there.

Context

Excerpts of the President's News Conference

11/26/1923

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