William Taft actually said...

I don't misconstrue it, but I know that Californians are loyal to the backbone and they are glad to welcome to the borders of their great State the representative of the Nation of which they are proud to be a part.

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Address at Glenwood Mission Inn in Riverside, California

10/11/1909

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