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Every age has its temptations, its weaknesses, its dangers. Ours is in the line of the snobbish and the sordid. - Rutherford B. Hayes
" "Every age has its temptations, its weaknesses, its dangers. Ours is in the line of the snobbish and the sordid.
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About Rutherford B. Hayes
Rutherford Birchard Hayes (October 4, 1822 – January 17, 1893) was the 19th president of the United States (1877–1881). As president, he oversaw the end of Reconstruction, began the efforts that led to civil service reform, and attempted to reconcile the divisions left over from the Civil War and Reconstruction.
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