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Calvin Coolidge: “I am sure that there are a good many men in both parties capable of filling any position that there is there, and…”

On the recordNovember 20, 1924
I am sure that there are a good many men in both parties capable of filling any position that there is there, and equally confident that anyone that the Senate and House wanted to choose for officers of their respective bodies would be persons entirely acceptable to me.
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Calvin Coolidge
Republican · Vermont

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Excerpts of the President's News Conference

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