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Calvin Coolidge: The more I have studied this movement, its inception, purposes, organization, and principles, the more I have been…

On the recordApril 30, 1926
The more I have studied this movement, its inception, purposes, organization, and principles, the more I have been impressed.
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Calvin Coolidge
Republican · Vermont

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Address Before the National Council of the Boy Scouts of America, Washington, D.C.

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