I think this—that the Governor Generalship of the Philippine Islands would probably be better administered, as any civil office would be, by a man who didn't have a predominantly military type of mind.
Calvin Coolidge: “I think this—that the Governor Generalship of the Philippine Islands would probably be better administered, as any civil…”
On the recordDecember 8, 1927
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