Grover Cleveland said "I can not but regard the expressed demand on the part of China for a reexamination and renewed discussion of the topics so completely covered by mutual treaty stipulations as an indefinite postponement and practical abandonment of the objects we have in view." @ PoliticalQuotes.com

On the recordSeptember 30, 1888

I can not but regard the expressed demand on the part of China for a reexamination and renewed discussion of the topics so completely covered by mutual treaty stipulations as an indefinite postponement and practical abandonment of the objects we have in view.

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Grover Cleveland

Democratic · New Jersey

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