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On the recordJuly 6, 1909
I thank you, my dear friends, I thank the reverend fathers and His Eminence the Cardinal, for the cordial reception that you have given to the civil head of New York and to the civil head of the Nation.
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Robert Taft
Republican · Ohio

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Address at the Catholic Summer School of America in Cliff Haven, New York

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