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Teddy Roosevelt: “I fail to see how any good American can be other than a better American when he comes here to Annapolis.”

On the recordJanuary 29, 1905
I fail to see how any good American can be other than a better American when he comes here to Annapolis.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

Editor's note · Context

Commencement Address at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland

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