Proclamation 776—Thanksgiving Day, 1907
10/25/1907
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I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested... do proclaim tha...
Shame on the man of cultivated taste who permits refinement to develop into a fastidiousness that unfits him for doing t...
I do not recommend any appropriation for their services, but only for the expenses that will be required to finish the t...
This of course meant the destruction of economy and efficiency for purely political considerations.