Theodore Roosevelt's Address to Boys' Progressive League - HISTORY

Though Theodore Roosevelt was not able to attend the meeting of the Boys' Progressive League in New York City, he made a recording of a speech on a cylinder phonograph on July 3, 1913, to be played in his absence.

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