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Teddy Roosevelt: “I had no conception that there was such a tide in our favor, and I frankly confess that I do not understand it.”

On the recordNovember 9, 1904
I had no conception that there was such a tide in our favor, and I frankly confess that I do not understand it.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

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Letter to Anna Cabot Mills Lodge

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