Inaugural Address
03/03/1905
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None of the men of my own generation or of this younger, stand as close to me as you of my regiment, as the men of the Spanish War do,
When 1898 came and the war which President McKinley in all honesty and in all sincerity sought to avoid became inevitable, and was pressed u...
It is not too much to say that no man since Lincoln was as widely and as universally beloved in this country as was President McKinley.
I have never tasted, not even at the wonderful banquet that I have attended in San Francisco, anything quite so good.