Calvin Coolidge actually said...

I noticed most of the ladies had on silk dresses and I thought I saw a rather general display of silk stockings.

I am pretty purely American, having I believe a little tinge of Indian blood in me.

The impression that struck me more than anything else was rather of a patriotic impression, an apparent general satisfaction with conditions...

That is the only purpose that America ever lands any Marines on foreign soil and they would have no other purpose in the present situation.