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Calvin Coolidge: I thought perhaps he would be back last winter, but he didn't seem to be able to get away.

On the recordDecember 2, 1926
I thought perhaps he would be back last winter, but he didn't seem to be able to get away.
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Calvin Coolidge
Republican · Vermont

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