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Teddy Roosevelt: “It is not possible that this Nation should permit Cuba again to sink into the condition from which we rescued it.”

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It is not possible that this Nation should permit Cuba again to sink into the condition from which we rescued it.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

Editor's note · Context

Roosevelt asserts that the U.S. cannot allow Cuba to revert to chaos after its intervention.

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