Teddy Roosevelt: “No other class of our citizens deserves so well of the Nation as those…”

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No other class of our citizens deserves so well of the Nation as those to whom the Nation owes its very being, the veterans of the civil war.

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Republican · New York

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Roosevelt emphasizes the importance of honoring Civil War veterans for their contributions to the nation.

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