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Calvin Coolidge: I don't desire to get any heavier and, perhaps, running through the fields may reduce my weight a little.

On the recordJune 23, 1927
I don't desire to get any heavier and, perhaps, running through the fields may reduce my weight a little.
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Calvin Coolidge
Republican · Vermont

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Excerpts of the President's News Conference in Rapid City, South Dakota

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