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Bill Taft: “I want the Navy to continue to be maintained in a condition worthy of this country.”

On the recordNovember 18, 1909
I want the Navy to continue to be maintained in a condition worthy of this country.
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Bill Taft
Republican · Ohio

Editor's note · Context

Address on the Occasion of the Convention of the Atlantic Deeper Waterways Association in Norfolk, Virginia

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