THE PRESIDENCY: The Coolidge Week: Apr. 25, 1927

¶ At breakfast at No. 15 Dupont Circle, President Coolidge, Senator McNary of Oregon (coauthor of the vetoed McNary-Haugen farm relief bill) and sundry powers of the Republican party shook hands all around. "We will pour balm on the farmers' wounds. Senator McNary will go scouting in the West and report to the President next summer with a compromise bill that will satisfy agriculture and not vex industry. Congress will pass the bill next winter," said last week's breakfasters in effect. Such strategy was predicted three weeks...

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