Theodore Roosevelt actually said...

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02/02/1904

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The reservation hereby established shall be known as The Cochetopah Forest Reserve.

I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested by the aforesaid acts of Congress, do hereby make...

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