Teddy Roosevelt: “The absolute novelty of this feature, as the world then stood, fails…”

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The absolute novelty of this feature, as the world then stood, fails to impress us now because we are so used to it.

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Republican · New York

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Roosevelt reflects on how the novelty of the American governance structure was not recognized in his time.

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Teddy Roosevelt: “The absolute novelty of this feature, as the world then stood, fails to impress us now because we are so used to it.”