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Teddy Roosevelt: “A man would indeed be but a poor American who could without a thrill witness the way in which, in city after city in the…”

On the recordOctober 17, 1905
A man would indeed be but a poor American who could without a thrill witness the way in which, in city after city in the North as in the South, on every public occasion, the men who wore the blue and the men who wore the gray now march and stand shoulder to shoulder.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

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Remarks in Richmond, Virginia

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