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Grover Cleveland: “It is hardly fair to ask the Government to grant a pension for the freak or gross heedlessness and recklessness of this…”

On the recordJuly 5, 1886
It is hardly fair to ask the Government to grant a pension for the freak or gross heedlessness and recklessness of this soldier.
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Grover Cleveland
Democratic · New Jersey

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