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Teddy Roosevelt: “The cost of doing Government business should be regulated with the same rigid scrutiny as the cost of doing a private…”

On the recordDecember 5, 1904
The cost of doing Government business should be regulated with the same rigid scrutiny as the cost of doing a private business.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

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