Teddy Roosevelt: “The nation realizes that it can not improvise naval officers even out…”

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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