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John Tyler: “It is not to be supposed that excited attention to public and national transactions or general political discussions in…”

On the recordJanuary 8, 1843
It is not to be supposed that excited attention to public and national transactions or general political discussions in Europe on subjects open to all the world are known only in consequence of private information communicated to the Government.
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John Tyler
Whig · Virginia

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