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Grover Cleveland: The temptation to relieve from contracts with the Government upon plausible application is, in my opinion, not…

On the recordApril 30, 1888
The temptation to relieve from contracts with the Government upon plausible application is, in my opinion, not sufficiently resisted.
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Grover Cleveland
Democratic · New Jersey

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