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Teddy Roosevelt: “Equally of course, the ships will be absolutely useless if the men aboard them are not so trained that they can get the…”

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Equally of course, the ships will be absolutely useless if the men aboard them are not so trained that they can get the best possible service out of the formidable but delicate and complicated mechanisms intrusted to their care.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

Editor's note · Context

Roosevelt stresses the importance of training personnel to effectively operate complex naval machinery.

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