Teddy Roosevelt: “The first great problem to be solved, upon the solution of which the…”

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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Republican · New York

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Message to Congress After Returning from the Canal Zone in Panama

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