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When the future historian traces Theodore Roosevelt's extraordinary career he will find these embodied ideals planted like milestones along the road over which he marched.
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Henry Cabot Lodge
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gutenberg.orgHenry Cabot Lodge: “When the future historian traces Theodore Roosevelt's extraordinary career he will find these embodied ideals planted…”
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Lodge predicts that future historians will recognize the ideals that guided Roosevelt's remarkable journey.
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