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Calvin Coolidge: The effort has been to improve the public service by elimination of waste and lost motion and by constructive…

On the recordJune 20, 1926
The effort has been to improve the public service by elimination of waste and lost motion and by constructive conservation of our resources.
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Calvin Coolidge
Republican · Vermont

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Address at the Eleventh Regular Meeting of the Business Organization of the Government, Washington, D.C.

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