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Bill Taft: “I am glad to be here, if, by being here and saying so, I can convince you that the so-called chasm between you and…”

On the recordDecember 12, 1909
I am glad to be here, if, by being here and saying so, I can convince you that the so-called chasm between you and people who seem for the time to be more fortunate is not a chasm.
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Bill Taft
Republican · Ohio

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Remarks at the New Bowery Mission in New York City

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