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Grover Cleveland: If he had refrained from interference, he would have saved himself and performed to the utmost his military duty.

On the recordJune 25, 1888
If he had refrained from interference, he would have saved himself and performed to the utmost his military duty.
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Grover Cleveland
Democratic · New Jersey

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