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> ... The President’s joy over the.. achievement of his fragrant pet, #GeneralWood.. an army surgeon, during several years, out West among the Indian hostiles. Roosevelt.. fell in love with him. When Roosevelt was offered the colonelcy of a regiment in the.. Cuban-Spanish war, he.. used his influence to get the higher place for Wood.. Wood became our Governor General in Cuba and proceeded to make a mephitic record.. Under #PresidentRoosevelt, this doctor has been pushed and crowded along higher and higher.. always over the heads.. of better men

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> ... he believed that the shock and shame of this episode would eat down deeper and deeper into the hearts of the nation and fester there and produce results. He believed it would destroy the Republican party and #PresidentRoosevelt. I cannot believe that the prediction will come true, for the reason that prophecies which promise valuable things, desirable things, good things, worthy things, never come true. Prophecies of this kind are like wars fought in a good cause—they are so rare that they don’t count.
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