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Teddy Roosevelt: “I have come, as I said, not to make a set speech, but to thank you for your greeting and to assure you that not one…”

On the recordFebruary 13, 1905
I have come, as I said, not to make a set speech, but to thank you for your greeting and to assure you that not one meeting which I have attended since I have been President has given me greater pleasure to attend than this dinner here tonight.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

Editor's note · Context

Remarks at the Hungarian Republican Club Dinner in New York City

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