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Calvin Coolidge: I expect to spend a considerable part of it trying to amuse the newspapermen.

On the recordJune 22, 1925
I expect to spend a considerable part of it trying to amuse the newspapermen.
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Calvin Coolidge
Republican · Vermont

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