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Bill Taft: “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…”

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.
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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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