I don't know that I have any right to be here to talk about waterways, unless it makes a man an expert on the subject to have gone down the Mississippi River.
Bill Taft: “I don't know that I have any right to be here to talk about waterways, unless it makes a man an expert on the subject to…”
On the recordDecember 7, 1909
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Address at the Sixth Annual Convention of the National Rivers and Harbors Congress
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