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Calvin Coolidge: “That is the main trouble with this bill—too many interests, too many people want to ride on it, until it became loaded…”

On the recordApril 30, 1928
That is the main trouble with this bill—too many interests, too many people want to ride on it, until it became loaded up with a great many objectionable features.
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Calvin Coolidge
Republican · Vermont

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