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Bill Taft: “I venture to say that in your whole experience you have never met men of a higher standard of character, of a higher…”

On the recordDecember 7, 1909
I venture to say that in your whole experience you have never met men of a higher standard of character, of a higher devotion to public duty, and of greater skill in their profession than those same army engineers.
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Bill Taft
Republican · Ohio

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Address at the Sixth Annual Convention of the National Rivers and Harbors Congress

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