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TIL that as a colonel in the US Army, Theodore Roosevelt drafted a letter to the Army Headquarters to appeal for his disease-stricken corps to be withdrawn from Cuba. The administration was outraged, but complied after the letter had leaked to the press and turned public opinion.

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