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Teddy Roosevelt: “The surveys, while of course beneficial to the people of the Philippine Islands, should be undertaken as a national work…”

On the recordFebruary 6, 1905
The surveys, while of course beneficial to the people of the Philippine Islands, should be undertaken as a national work for the information not merely of the people of the Philippine Islands, but of the people of this country and of the world.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

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