I wish to say what a great pleasure it has been to be here today.
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Remarks at Oxnard, California
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Each of these children represents either a potential addition to the productive capacity and the enlightened citizenship of the nation, or, if allowed to suffer from neglect, a potential addition to the destructive forces of the community.
Now, Therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by the Act of Congress, approved June fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, do proclaim that the said lands are hereby added to the Alamo National Forest
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles.
Such National Forest so enlarged shall, except as hereinafter provided, be subject to all the laws affecting National Forests.





