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Roosevelt Plot at 1912 Republican Convention Revealed
Veteran Coliseum manager recounts a plan to smuggle Theodore Roosevelt into the 1912 Republican convention in Chicago. The scheme, if executed, could have altered modern American politics, and ties to Teddy Roosevelt's son at the 1939 Legion convention add historical echo.
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