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Grover Cleveland: I am so thoroughly tired of disapproving gifts of public money to individuals who in my view have no right or claim to…

On the recordJune 20, 1886
I am so thoroughly tired of disapproving gifts of public money to individuals who in my view have no right or claim to the same.
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Grover Cleveland
Democratic · New Jersey

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