¶ President Coolidge was light-learted. As he popped his dress shirt-studs into position and adjusted his crisp white bow-tie and the wings of his collar, he was a happy man. That afternoon he had repeated his withdrawal from the 1928 presidential race (see BOOMS) in such terms that the Republican National Committee would not again ply him with insistent questions—at least, not for some time. Meantime he was still the President, and would continue so for 15 months to come. . . . The President went downstairs...
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