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

On the recordDecember 27, 1926
The marines are there simply for the protection of American and foreign lives and property wherever it may be necessary.
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Calvin Coolidge
Republican · Vermont

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Excerpts of the President's News Conference

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