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The advancement of the highest interests of national science and learning and the custody of objects of art and of the valuable results of scientific expeditions conducted by the United States have been committed to the Smithsonian Institution.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

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Roosevelt discusses the role of the Smithsonian Institution in advancing national science and art.

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