Teddy Roosevelt: “No man should regard it as his vested right to rise to the highest…”

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No man should regard it as his vested right to rise to the highest rank in the Army any more than in any other profession.

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Republican · New York

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Roosevelt asserts that no one should assume they have a right to rise to the highest ranks in the Army, similar to other professions.

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