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On the recordNovember 7, 1909
Nothing could modify my ambitions, nothing restrain the haste with which I would go back to the Capitol City except the pleasure of meeting my old friends in Augusta.
Said by
Bill Taft
Republican · Ohio

Editor's note · Context

Remarks at the Georgia-Carolina Fair in Augusta, Georgia

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