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White House Press Pool Reports @WHPressPool - Pool report #23: Speech excerpts
POTUS still speaking. Sharing a few highlights:
Says we are winning Iran war “very easily”
Talks about Panama Canal, says “we gave it away”
Says Canal was “a little bit like Venezuela,” partly in that it was profitable
Says we did very well in Venezuela
America the greatest country in the world and “we’re not gonna let communists get in our way”
It is 80 degrees and sunny. Many in the crowd are fanning themselves.
Some more excerpts on background from the White House:
On Background
Speech Excerpts:
Today, we come to the heartland of America to pay tribute to a man who embodied the HEART, SOUL, FIGHT, and SPIRIT of our country as much as anyone who ever livedPresident Theodore Roosevelt.
As a young boy, he saw Lincoln’s casket pass through a nation torn apart by Civil Warand by the end of his sixty years, T.R. had transformed this country by the reach of his vision and the force of his will into a great power and empire, ready to take its rightful place as the strongest, most respected nation in the world.
The life of Theodore Roosevelt reminds us that Americans never give up. He never stopped, never quit, and never surrendered in pursuit of his dreams, or his pursuit of America’s Destinyand neither will we.
Our ancestors were the people who raised up New York City from the marshes of Manhattan, and then ventured into the Dakotas to carve a life in the place they called “Hell with the Fires Burned Out.”
Theodore Roosevelt reminds us all that to be a great nation, and to be a free nation, we must have Courage. As T.R. once put it, “Freedom is not a gift that lasts long in the hands of cowards.”