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Teddy Roosevelt: “I directed or approved every action, and am responsible for all that was done in carrying out the will of the Congress…”

On the recordDecember 14, 1908
I directed or approved every action, and am responsible for all that was done in carrying out the will of the Congress; and the provisions of the law, enacted by Congress after exhaustive examination and discussion, were scrupulously complied with by the Executive.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

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