Special Message
12/14/1908
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The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood.
I have just been shot.
I deeply appreciate your letter, and I realize to the full the heavy responsibility it puts upon me.
I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested... do proclaim tha...