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Teddy Roosevelt: “But I tell you, Kermit, it was a great comfort to feel, all during the last days when affairs looked doubtful, that no…”

On the recordNovember 9, 1904
But I tell you, Kermit, it was a great comfort to feel, all during the last days when affairs looked doubtful, that no matter how things came out the really important thing was the lovely life I have with mother and with you children, and that compared to this home life everything else was of very small importance from the standpoint of happiness.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

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Letter to Kermit Roosevelt

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