Special Message
04/17/1906
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Now, Therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by...
an extraordinary occasion requires the Senate of the United States to convene at the Capitol, in the city of Washington,...
I care for the great deeds of the past chiefly as spurs to drive us onward in the present.