Benjamin Harrison actually said...

I felt that the honor of our country and of the Navy had been touched, and that nothing was left to us but, in a quiet and dignified and yet firm way, to insist upon suitable redress.

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Remarks on Receiving the Riggin Statuette

02/07/1893

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