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Calvin Coolidge: “That country is undergoing a revolution and is split up into different sections, each of them contending against each…”

On the recordJanuary 20, 1927
That country is undergoing a revolution and is split up into different sections, each of them contending against each other and each of them pretty much entirely denying the authority of the central government.
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Calvin Coolidge
Republican · Vermont

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Excerpts of the President's News Conference

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