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Calvin Coolidge: “We have got so many regulatory laws already that in general I feel that we would be just as well off if we didn't have…”

On the recordJanuary 5, 1925
We have got so many regulatory laws already that in general I feel that we would be just as well off if we didn't have any more.
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Calvin Coolidge
Republican · Vermont

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