Carefully spreading benevolent salve on old political sores, proposing no new important legislation, President Coolidge's message was read to both houses of Congress by the clerks. In reporting the health of the Republic, the message said; "It is impossible to characterize it other than one of general peace and prosperity. . . . In some quarters our diplomacy is vexed with difficult and as yet unsolved problems, but nowhere [the clerk paused] are we met with armed conflict."
For the farmers the President had fond words: "The whole question of agriculture needs more...
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