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Calvin Coolidge: Quite naturally I thought I would like to confide it to the newspapermen first.

On the recordAugust 4, 1927
Quite naturally I thought I would like to confide it to the newspapermen first.
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Calvin Coolidge
Republican · Vermont

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Excerpts of the President's News Conference

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