Calvin Coolidge actually said...

"The work could go right on and the commission report to the next Congress, and on that report the next Congress would then legislate."

"My position, as I suggested the other day, was fully set out in my message, wherein I stated that I thought the property that was to be benefited ought to bear some portion of the expense."

"I should expect that under any commission that might be set up or any agency that might be used for the prosecution of this work, that it would be done in a business way."

"It seems to me that the decision about that would be this—that this is something that the United States Government ought to do."