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On the recordNovember 10, 1909
We entered lightly – well, not lightly; with a sense of due gravity, but certainly not with a sense of what the possibilities were – at Key West and at Santiago, and we brought up ten thousand miles away at Manila.
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Bill Taft
Republican · Ohio

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Address at the Washington Convention of the Laymen's Missionary Movement in Continental Memorial Hall

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