Excerpts of the President's News Conference
11/19/1923
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu...
The National Government ought to be one great entity responsible for the happiness of 120,000,000 of people.
The Senate has a way of reaching a vote when it wants to and I have no doubt that that will be the result on the cruiser...
If some method can be worked out, I should be glad to see it done.
They might just as well hunt for a will-o-the-wisp.