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I think it would have been easy to make him the Republican candidate, and to elect him to the Presidency in 1888, if he had been willing to take that position himself.
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gutenberg.orgGeorge F. Hoar: “I think it would have been easy to make him the Republican candidate, and to elect him to the Presidency in 1888, if he…”
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Hoar reflects on the potential political career of a prominent figure in the Republican Party.
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