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      • In his Inaugural Address, Calvin Coolidge (Republican Party), acknowledges the financial prosperity of the decade he is presiding over and encourages the nation to use that prosperity to become unique in terms of civil and economic rights as well as continuing to aid in the rebuilding of “the Old World” that had been devastated by World War I. Coolidge calls for a strengthening of American values and American tranquility.
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