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Teddy Roosevelt: “I think I was a pretty good American when I came, but I am going away a better American.”

On the recordMay 27, 1903
I think I was a pretty good American when I came, but I am going away a better American.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

Editor's note · Context

Remarks in Glenn's Ferry, Idaho

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