There is no patent recipe for getting good citizenship.
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Address at Dedication of the Building of the Young Men's Christian Association in San Francisco, California
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an extraordinary occasion requires the Senate of the United States to convene at the Capitol, in the city of Washington, on the 4th day of March next, at 12 o'clock noon
By virtue of the power in me vested by the Act of Congress, approved June fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, entitled, 'An Act Making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, and for other purposes,' do proclaim that the said lands are hereby added to the Sequoia National Forest
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.
It deserves, and should have, the widest possible distribution among the people.





