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Teddy Roosevelt: “You do not think I should be quiet while the American people are being held up.”

On the recordApril 8, 1905
You do not think I should be quiet while the American people are being held up.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

Editor's note · Context

Remarks in Frederick, Oklahoma

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