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Calvin Coolidge: “I deem it necessary for the discipline of our military forces that the judgment of the efficiency board should be…”

On the recordMay 13, 1926
I deem it necessary for the discipline of our military forces that the judgment of the efficiency board should be accepted by the President and the Congress as final unless some information develops which was not known at the time of their action and which otherwise would probably have caused them to reach a different conclusion.
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Calvin Coolidge
Republican · Vermont

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Message to the Senate Returning Without Approval a Bill Providing for the Re-Appointment of Chester A. Rothwell to Engineers...

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