It should be our object in every way to encourage the National Guards of the States and to build them up to the highest point of efficiency.
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Remarks at Tomlinson Hall in Indianapolis, Indiana
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It is hereby ordered that two small islands of the Pribilof group, located approximately in latitude fifty-seven degrees north, longitude one hundred and seventy degrees west from Greenwich, be and same are hereby reserved.
The interests of the nation are involved in the welfare of this army of children no less than in our great material affairs.
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In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.





