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Teddy Roosevelt: “I should count myself wholly unworthy of the position I hold if I did not strive to represent the people of the…”

On the recordMay 4, 1903
I should count myself wholly unworthy of the position I hold if I did not strive to represent the people of the mountains and the plains exactly as much as those of the Mississippi Valley or of either coast, Atlantic or Pacific.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

Editor's note · Context

Remarks in Santa Fe, New Mexico

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