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Bill Taft: “There is something in the atmosphere that suggests a flying machine, as if you were all so full of joy that that element…”

On the recordJuly 6, 1909
There is something in the atmosphere that suggests a flying machine, as if you were all so full of joy that that element in you could raise you up, and that is the way you ought to be.
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Bill Taft
Republican · Ohio

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Address at the Catholic Summer School of America in Cliff Haven, New York

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