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Grover Cleveland: The fact is, in this case there is no disability which can be traced to the forty days' military service of fifty-four…

On the recordJuly 5, 1886
The fact is, in this case there is no disability which can be traced to the forty days' military service of fifty-four years ago.
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Grover Cleveland
Democratic · New Jersey

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