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Bowing as low as he could and stay balanced on Polly's back, he reached his hand out to the President and boomed out, "Welcome to our city, Mr. President." "Well, upon my word!" family tradition places the words in the mouth of Mr. McKinley. "Isn't that a pretty big horse for such a small boy? Here's a flag for you to remember me by." He reached up and took a flag from the decorations of the carriage. "I'll not forget you." Lyle took it home. Mother wrapped it up, and it's there marked, "From President McKinley to Lyle." Some time later, at the end of my father's first year in Congress, the talk was of going home, and I found that the most important part of my whole stay had been neglected. How could I face the girls in Sioux City and admit I'd never got acquainted with President Roosevelt? 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Do you wonder that when later my father was an insurgent, as they were called then, and I heard some talk of the high-handed methods of the President, I always felt, sure as sure, that some way he. my friend, was right? Is just the brief glimpse I can give |