Final Report Relating to a Celebration of the Hundredth Anniversary of the Birth of Theodore Roosevelt, 1858-1958: Pursuant to Public Law 183, of the Eighty-fourth Congress |
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... dwelt and labored among us , who preached not the doctrine of ignoble ease , but the doctrine of the strenuous life , the life of toil and effort , of labor and strife ; that highest form of success which comes , not to the man who ...
... dwelt and labored among us , who preached not the doctrine of ignoble ease , but the doctrine of the strenuous life , the life of toil and effort , of labor and strife ; that highest form of success which comes , not to the man who ...
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| Title | Final Report Relating to a Celebration of the Hundredth Anniversary of the Birth of Theodore Roosevelt, 1858-1958: Pursuant to Public Law 183, of the Eighty-fourth Congress Issue 36 of Document, United States 86th Cong., 1st sess., 1959 Issue 36 of Senate document |
| Author | Theodore Roosevelt Centennial Commission |
| Publisher | U.S. Government Printing Office, 1959 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 30 Aug 2007 |
| Length | 219 pages |
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