Theodore Roosevelt actually said...

We have not been able to reward Wood in anything like the proportion that services such as his would have been rewarded in any other country of the first rank in the world;

Context

Remarks Before the Associated Physicians of Long Island in Oyster Bay, New York

07/11/1905

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