Teddy Roosevelt: “I wish to bid you welcome to Washington, and to say but a word of…”

On the recordApril 6, 1904

I wish to bid you welcome to Washington, and to say but a word of greeting, and that word shall take the form of a warning and a hope.

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Republican · New York

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Remarks at a Dinner of the Periodical Publishers' Association of America

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