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Bill Taft: “It is a most appropriate building for all these purposes, and will remain here as long as the other buildings put up by…”

On the recordOctober 16, 1909
It is a most appropriate building for all these purposes, and will remain here as long as the other buildings put up by the government, to show the attachment and loyalty of the people of San Antonio both to the government and to those representatives of the government whose fortune it is to live in this neighborhood.
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Bill Taft
Republican · Ohio

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Remarks at the Dedication of the Gift Chapel at Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio, Texas

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