On the record
I call your especial attention to the desirability of giving to the members of the Life Saving Service pensions such as are given to firemen and policemen in all our great cities.
Source
gutenberg.orgEditor's note · Context
Roosevelt calls for pensions for members of the Life Saving Service, comparing their service to that of firefighters and policemen.
Share
More from Teddy Roosevelt
Mar 1, 1909
Now, Therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by an Act of Congress, approved June fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, entitled, 'An Act Making appropriations…
Apr 22, 1910
Shame on the man of cultivated taste who permits refinement to develop into a fastidiousness that unfits him for doing the rough work of a workaday world.
Apr 22, 1910
France is one of these nations. For her to sink would be a loss to all the world.
Oct 13, 1912
I want every labor man, every labor leader, every organized union man, to take the lead in denouncing crime or violence.
Other voices in this conversation
