Theodore Roosevelt actually said...

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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Remarks in Santa Fe, New Mexico

05/04/1903

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