Whitelaw Reid: “He couldn’t understand why a State good enough to furnish the country…”

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He couldn’t understand why a State good enough to furnish the country a President wasn’t good enough to furnish the House members.

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Reid reflects on the irony of a state that produced a president not being able to provide members for the House.

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