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Unless ample provision is now made by Congress to put the Medical Corps where it should be put disaster in the next war is inevitable, and the responsibility will not lie with those then in charge of the War Department, but with those who now decline to make the necessary provision.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

Editor's note · Context

Roosevelt warns that without proper provisions for the Medical Corps, future military conflicts could lead to inevitable disasters.

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