Political Quotes

On the recordDecember 7, 1909
You have done it wisely, first, because when you want a thing done it is just as well to get close to the men who are to do it.
Said by
Bill Taft
Republican · Ohio

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Address at the Sixth Annual Convention of the National Rivers and Harbors Congress

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