Remarks in Nahant, Massachusetts
08/24/1902
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I deeply appreciate your letter, and I realize to the full the heavy responsibility it puts upon me.
Now, Therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by...
France is one of these nations. For her to sink would be a loss to all the world.
I stand for the square deal.