Teddy Roosevelt: “The trouble was that he represented not very unfairly the sentiment of…”

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The trouble was that he represented not very unfairly the sentiment of a large portion of the Eastern, and especially the Northeastern, people.

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Republican · New York

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Roosevelt reflects on the sentiments of Eastern Americans during negotiations, indicating a disconnect with the frontiersmen's needs.

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