¶Early in the week the President rested for two days at his father's house in Plymouth. He napped frequently, strolled about, hiked across the fields, became tanned by sun and wind.
¶Forced by the imperative circumstances to deliberate the Belgian debt matter (see CABINET) at Plymouth with Senator Smoot and Secretary Mellon, the President determined to do so in privacy. Early in the morning he and Mrs. Coolidge slipped downstairs and tacked up bed sheets in such a way as to completely screen the piazza. Later in the...
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