Theodore Roosevelt actually said...

I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, in virtue of the authority conferred upon me by the said Joint Resolution, do hereby set apart the twelfth day of February, nineteen hundred and nine, as a special legal holiday.

Context

Proclamation 842—Centennial Anniversay of the Birth of Abraham Lincoln

02/10/1909

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