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Teddy Roosevelt: “No worthier object can be striven after than the creation of a building such as this for the benefit of those to whom…”

On the recordMay 13, 1903
No worthier object can be striven after than the creation of a building such as this for the benefit of those to whom every American owes so much—the enlisted men of the United States navy.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

Editor's note · Context

Address at the Laying of the Cornerstone of the Y.M.C.A. Auxiliary Clubhouse in Vallejo, California

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