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27. T. Roosevelt wasn't too bad

Reply to IronLionZion (Reply #21)

Thu May 4, 2017, 01:19 PM

May 2017

and that's only 108 years. He wasn't perfect (too much of a warmonger and expansionist IMO) but he did a lot the modern Republican party is still trying to destroy.

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