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Calvin Coolidge: “If we are going to have the policy here of limitation of armaments, we shall never have it by reason of that treaty we…”

On the recordJanuary 8, 1925
If we are going to have the policy here of limitation of armaments, we shall never have it by reason of that treaty we have made, but by reason of a public sentiment that exists in the country in favor of that policy.
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Calvin Coolidge
Republican · Vermont

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