Teddy Roosevelt: “Under such conditions it did not need keen vision to foretell…”

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Under such conditions it did not need keen vision to foretell disaster.

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Republican · New York

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Roosevelt reflects on the predictability of failure given the poor conditions of the military expedition.

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Teddy Roosevelt: “Under such conditions it did not need keen vision to foretell disaster.”