I like to introduce myself, because THEN I can get in all the facts." The usually self-deprecating John Hay on the ironi — John Taliaferro, All the Great Prizes : The Life of John Hay, from Lincoln to Roosevelt
I like to introduce myself, because THEN I can get in all the facts." The usually self-deprecating John Hay on the ironi — John Taliaferro, All the Great Prizes : The Life of John Hay, from Lincoln to Roosevelt
I like to introduce myself, because THEN I can get in all the facts." The usually self-deprecating John Hay on the ironi — John Taliaferro, All the Great Prizes : The Life of John Hay, from Lincoln to Roosevelt
I like to introduce myself, because THEN I can get in all the facts." The usually self-deprecating John Hay on the ironi — John Taliaferro, All the Great Prizes : The Life of John Hay, from Lincoln to Roosevelt
I like to introduce myself, because THEN I can get in all the facts." The usually self-deprecating John Hay on the ironi — John Taliaferro, All the Great Prizes : The Life of John Hay, from Lincoln to Roosevelt
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I like to introduce myself, because THEN I can get in all the facts." The usually self-deprecating John Hay on the ironic formality of signing his own commission as Secretary of State.

— John Taliaferro, All the Great Prizes : The Life of John Hay, from Lincoln to Roosevelt
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