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To-night I wish to greet you most warmly and to say that I doubt if we could find a more typically American gathering than this, for Americanism is not a matter of birthplace, of ancestry, of creed, of occupation.
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Roosevelt emphasizes that true American identity transcends background and is rooted in spirit.
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