It was brought to my attention today that the National Zeitung of Berlin on the 21st of April printed what they said was an article by me. I never wrote any such article and never authorized it. It was an entire fake. Yet it had a heading on it which was signed "The Editor, " saying that it was my article. I tell you that so if you see it none of you may feel slighted because you didn't get the fake.
PRESS: Could you tell us what the story was?
PRESIDENT: It purported to be some statement by me about American conditions, international relations, and so on. I didn't read it.
Source: "The Talkative President: The Off-the-Record Press Conferences of Calvin Coolidge". eds. Howard H. Quint & Robert H. Ferrell. The University Massachusetts Press. 1964.
Calvin Coolidge, Excerpts of the President's News Conference Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/349252
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