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On the recordMarch 6, 1911
I hope and pray that success may attend you in your profession and that real happiness will come to you and yours when you return to that community where you live, and whose members know your worth as a man and a citizen, and who will receive you again with open arms.
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Bill Taft
Republican · Ohio

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Letter to Richard A. Ballinger Accepting His Resignation as Secretary of the Interior

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