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Teddy Roosevelt: Probably the great majority of the Government reports and the like now printed are never read at all, and furthermore…

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Probably the great majority of the Government reports and the like now printed are never read at all, and furthermore the printing of much of the material contained in many of the remaining ones serves no useful purpose whatever.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

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He points out that most government reports are rarely read and often serve no useful purpose.

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