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Teddy Roosevelt: “When the accident occurred there were fully twenty minutes when every man knew that any moment the ship might sink.”

On the recordMay 29, 1905
When the accident occurred there were fully twenty minutes when every man knew that any moment the ship might sink.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

Editor's note · Context

Remarks at the Naval Young Men's Christian Association in Brooklyn, New York City

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