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On the recordDecember 7, 1908
It is a curious and by no means creditable fact that there should be so often a failure on the part of the public and its representatives to understand the great need, from the standpoint of the service and the Nation, of refusing to promote respectable, elderly incompetents.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

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Eighth Annual Message

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