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He [Roosevelt] has made some speeches that indicate that he is going quite beyond anything that he advocated when he was in the White House, and has proposed a program which is absolutely impossible to carry out except by a revision of the Constitution.

William Howard Taft

William Howard Taft (1857–1930), U.S. president. Letter to his brother, Charles, September 10, 1910. Henry F. Pringle, The Life and Times of William Howard Taft, 2: 573, Farrar & Rinehart (1939).

Taft wrote ten days after Roosevelt announced his New Nationalism in a speech at Osawatomie, Kansas, August 31, 1910.

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