Special Message
12/16/1906
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Don’t you pity me. I am all right.
I deeply appreciate your letter, and I realize to the full the heavy responsibility it puts upon me.
The American people by a great plurality have conferred upon you the highest honor in their gift.
I speak of the men of the past partly that they may be honored by our praise of them, but more that they may serve as ex...