"For this purpose I recommend that an appropriation of $500,000 be made, to be immediately available."
"The disaster is complete; that the city of St. Pierre has ceased to exist; and that the American consul and his family have perished."
"The disaster is complete; that the city of St. Pierre has ceased to exist."
"It is hereby ordered that upon Wednesday, the 21st instant, such employees of the Executive Departments, the Government Printing Office, and the Navy Yard and Station at Washington, D.C., as served in..."
"I earnestly commend this case of unexampled disaster to the generous consideration of the Congress."
"By the President of the United States of America, A Proclamation"
"Now, Therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power vested in me by law, do hereby declare and make known that all of the lands so as aforesaid ced..."
"Honor to the statesmen of the past, and may the statesmen of the present strive to live up to the example they set!"
"I am glad that we, as Americans, have cause to be proud of the army and the navy of the United States—of the men who in the past have upheld the honor of the flag, and of their successors, the soldier..."
"They did justice, and we will do justice."
"And in the names of the mighty men of the past I ask each man here to do his part in seeing that this nation remains true in deed as well as in word to the ideals of the past;"