Calvin Coolidge actually said...

"There are some letters being received here at my office against the building program and some communications are being received in favor of it."

"The work could go right on and the commission report to the next Congress, and on that report the next Congress would then legislate."

"I think it would be the best plan, so far as I can judge, to proceed to do this work in accordance with the present law; that is, through the War Department, the Chief of the Bureau of Engineers, and ..."

"It seems to me that the decision about that would be this—that this is something that the United States Government ought to do."