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Topical Budget 221-1: Strong Man of the U.S.A. (1915)
 

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Main title. "Mr. Roosevelt states `If I had been President at the time of the torpedoing of the Lusitania or the air raids on London I Should have acted, it was our duty'". Theodore Roosevelt seen with a large number of clergy including a cardinal.

Note: Roosevelt was a critic of President Woodrow Wilson and argued for the USA to join World War I.