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Roosevelt as Speaker Plan Surfaces in Reconstruction Talk
The piece discusses a wheeze to make Theodore Roosevelt Speaker of the House after a coming back from Africa. It outlines an original plan with Roosevelt in the Senate, Root moved aside, and Roosevelt later to the presidency, but notes Taft’s actions altered the scheme. It cites Western and Eastern editorials and mentions Rockefeller and Ryan amid a web of political maneuvering.
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