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Teddy Roosevelt: “Actual--not constructive--living at home on the land for three years should be required before commutation.”

On the recordDecember 16, 1906
Actual--not constructive--living at home on the land for three years should be required before commutation.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

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