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Teddy Roosevelt: “And finally he crowned his life work by serving as Secretary of State with such farsighted reading of the future and…”

On the recordJuly 2, 1905
And finally he crowned his life work by serving as Secretary of State with such farsighted reading of the future and such loyalty to lofty ideals as to confer lasting benefits not only upon our own country but upon all the nations of the earth
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

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Proclamation 578—Announcing the Death of John Hay

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