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Calvin Coolidge: It is almost a slight on Congress to have a message generally distributed promiscuously around the country before it…

On the recordNovember 15, 1928
It is almost a slight on Congress to have a message generally distributed promiscuously around the country before it goes to the Congress itself.
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Calvin Coolidge
Republican · Vermont

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Excerpts of the President's News Conference

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