William Taft actually said...

In my judgment, he is the best friend of the policy of conservation of natural resources who insists that every step taken in that direction should be within the law and buttressed by legal authority.

Context

Letter to Secretary of the Interior Richard A. Ballinger on Coal Land Claims in Alaska

09/12/1909

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