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Source: New-York Tribune Source type: newspaper Document type: article Document title: “The President’s Unselfishness” Author(s): anonymous City of publication: New York, New York Date of publication: 12 September 1901 Volume number: 61 Issue number: 20024 Pagination: 1 |
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| “The President’s Unselfishness.” New-York Tribune 12 Sept. 1901 v61n20024: p. 1. |
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| William McKinley (medical care); William McKinley (activity, conversations, etc. during recovery); McKinley assassination (public response); William McKinley (medical condition: public response). |
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| none. |
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The President’s Unselfishness
HE HOPES NOTHING THAT HAPPENS TO HIM WILL DISTRESS
THE PEOPLE OF THE COUNTRY.
Buffalo, Sept. 11.—The President’s
physicians are exceedingly careful about repeating any of his utterances. There
is an understanding that all the sickroom conversation shall be regarded as
professional privacy. The rule was broken to-night by one of the doctors, who,
on account of the unselfishness of the thought, considered that the American
people are entitled to know it through The Tribune. On Monday morning, while
the physicians were preparing to examine him, the President said somewhat abruptly:
“How are the people all over the country taking
it?”
Then he quickly added in a most impressive and
distinct voice:
“I sincerely hope that nothing that happens to
me will distress the people of our country.”