Calvin Coolidge actually said...

The marines are there simply for the protection of American and foreign lives and property wherever it may be necessary.

Excerpts of the President's News Conference

12/27/1926

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But in the case of the bench I should look for something more than that.

It is a very significant development.

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It is of signal importance that those places be filled by men about which there can't be any controversy.