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Grover Cleveland: “I have not thought it compatible with the public interest that the correspondence referred to in the resolution should…”

On the recordMarch 1, 1897
I have not thought it compatible with the public interest that the correspondence referred to in the resolution should be communicated pending the public and exhaustive investigation about to be instituted.
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Grover Cleveland
Democratic · New Jersey

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