Inaugural Address
03/03/1901
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We should not permit our great prosperity to lead us to reckless ventures in business or profligacy in public expenditur...
Under the circumstances of this case I do not feel at liberty to approve the bill.
We are reunited.
Now, therefore, I, William McKinley, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim and declare that an e...