Teddy Roosevelt said "The nation realizes that it can not improvise naval officers even out of first-rate skippers of merchantmen and passenger-steamers." @ PoliticalQuotes.com

On the recordJanuary 1, 1900

The nation realizes that it can not improvise naval officers even out of first-rate skippers of merchantmen and passenger-steamers.

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Republican · New York

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Arguing for sustained investment in naval training, this emphasizes that expertise cannot be quickly created from unrelated civilian experience.

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