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Teddy Roosevelt: “Now think what it means in a nation for the President of that nation, forty years after one of the greatest wars of all…”

On the recordOctober 25, 1905
Now think what it means in a nation for the President of that nation, forty years after one of the greatest wars of all time, to be able to come and speak as I spoke in the capital of the Southern Confederacy, and to feel that I was addressing a people as loyal to the flag of our reunited country as can be found in this broad land of ours.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

Editor's note · Context

Remarks on Being Presented with a Watch Charm by a Delegation of Confederate Veterans in New Orleans

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