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Teddy Roosevelt: “When 1898 came and the war which President McKinley in all honesty and in all sincerity sought to avoid became…”

On the recordMay 12, 1903
When 1898 came and the war which President McKinley in all honesty and in all sincerity sought to avoid became inevitable, and was pressed upon him, he met it as he and you had met the crisis of 1861.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

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Address at the Ceremonies Incident to the Breaking of Sod for the Erection of a Monument in Memory of the Late President...

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