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Teddy Roosevelt: “The interests of California, Oregon, and Washington are as emphatically the interests of the whole Union as those of…”

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The interests of California, Oregon, and Washington are as emphatically the interests of the whole Union as those of Maine and New York, of Louisiana and Texas.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

Editor's note · Context

He argues that the interests of the Pacific states are as vital to the Union as those of the Atlantic states.

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