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Teddy Roosevelt: “It is imperatively necessary in the interest of health and of decency that they should be radically changed.”

On the recordJune 3, 1906
It is imperatively necessary in the interest of health and of decency that they should be radically changed.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

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