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Remarks in Windsor, Vermont

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Feb 4, 1909

This of course meant the destruction of economy and efficiency for purely political considerations.

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Feb 4, 1909

I do not believe in the doctrine that to the victor belong the spoils; but I think even less of the doctrine that the spoils shall be divided without a fight by the professional politicians on both sides.

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Feb 10, 1909

I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, in virtue of the authority conferred upon me by the said Joint Resolution, do hereby set apart the twelfth day of February, nineteen hundred and nine, as a special legal holiday.

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