Teddy Roosevelt: “There is filth on the floor, and it must be scraped up with the…”

On the recordApril 13, 1906

There is filth on the floor, and it must be scraped up with the muck-rake.

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Republican · New York

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Remarks at the Laying of the Cornerstone of the Office Building of the House of Representatives: \The Man with the Muck...\

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Teddy Roosevelt: “There is filth on the floor, and it must be scraped up with the muck-rake.”