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Teddy Roosevelt: “I do not believe that in any service there is a finer body of enlisted men and of junior officer than we have in both…”

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I do not believe that in any service there is a finer body of enlisted men and of junior officer than we have in both the Army and the Navy, including the Marine Corps.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

Editor's note · Context

Roosevelt praises the quality of enlisted men and junior officers in the military services.

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