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How much was Teddy Roosevelt exaggerating when he claimed the US had freed Cuba and the Philippines, asking in return "nothing whatever save that at no time shall their independence be prostituted to the advantage of some foreign rival of ours." ?

by /u/RusticBohemian in /r/AskHistorians

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