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Calvin Coolidge: “What I desire especially to do is to get our merchant fleet into private operation, with sufficient guarantees to have…”

On the recordAugust 18, 1927
What I desire especially to do is to get our merchant fleet into private operation, with sufficient guarantees to have it kept in operation.
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Calvin Coolidge
Republican · Vermont

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Excerpts of the President's News Conference in Rapid City, South Dakota

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