I have felt that it was not only essential as a matter of national defense, but that there was a prestige and influence for peace and good neighborhood between the nations of the earth in the completion and equipment of these great ships that nothing else could furnish.
Remarks on Receiving the Riggin Statuette
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It should be known before new legislation is proposed whether the United States is under any treaty obligations which affect this subject
If this article of the treaty is in force, the obligations assumed by the United States should be fully and honorably observed
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The correspondence which accompanies the treaty will put the Senate in possession of all the facts known to the Executive.
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