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On the recordDecember 16, 1906
The first great problem to be solved, upon the solution of which the success of the rest of the work depended, was the problem of sanitation.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

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Message to Congress After Returning from the Canal Zone in Panama

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