Theodore Roosevelt actually said...

I make an exception in this case because the lamentable and terrible suffering to which so many of the Jewish people in other lands have been subjected.

Context

Letter to Jacob H. Schiff, Read at the Celebration Commemorating the 250th Anniversary of the Landing of the Jews in This...

11/29/1905

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