The nation's constantly increasing fire waste is cause for general concern and consideration.
Calvin Coolidge
The Public Record
Calvin Coolidge was the 30th President of the United States, serving from 1923 to 1929. A member of the Republican Party, he was known for his quiet demeanor and strong support for business and limited government. Coolidge's presidency is often associated with the economic prosperity of the Roaring Twenties, and he famously advocated for a hands-off approach to the economy, believing that government should interfere as little as possible in the lives of citizens and businesses.
This may well be the starting point for a continuous fire prevention program extending over the entire country.
Unquestionably this is a most important means of attacking fire waste.
The conservation of man power and material wealth from such destruction is a challenge to the progress of our civilization.
I have found that there exists in Nicaragua such conditions of domestic violence which are or may be promoted by the use of arms or munitions of war procured from the United States.
I think you have done rather better than I could have done, if I had undertaken to sit down twice a week and dictated a statement to be given out.
I am sure that the outdoor life has refreshed me, invigorated me, and been very beneficial.
Now, I don't regard, as you men know, that it is at all necessary for the President to give out a verbatim statement of everything that may be discussed here, but rather to leave it to the different reporters, because they are reporters…
Our citizens down there have been murdered in the past since 1913, a good many of them.





