The local death-rates, especially from preventable diseases, are so unduly high as to suggest that the exceptional wholesomeness of Washington’s better sections is offset by bad conditions in her poorer neighborhoods.
Roosevelt points out the disparity in health outcomes between different neighborhoods in Washington.
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I speak of the men of the past partly that they may be honored by our praise of them, but more that they may serve as examples for the future.
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A broken promise is bad enough in private life. It is worse in the field of politics.
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