Message to Congress
06/12/1902
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The boundaries of said National Forest are now as shown on the said diagram.
I do this with extreme reluctance.
Now, Therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by...
The interests of the nation are involved in the welfare of this army of children no less than in our great material affa...