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_005195332	Oglesby, Thaddeus K.	Catholics in American history	1917		.txt	text/plain	6993	173	47	I do not suppose that any one will question the robust Americanism of Theodore Roose- velt, who twice appointed a Roman Catholic to a place in his cabinet—first as Secretary of the Navy, and then as .Attorney-General of the United States. We know what nation Washington meant when he wrote of “the important assistance” in the establishment of their government which the Revolutionary patriots “received from a nation in which the Roman Catholic faith is professed”; and in this country’s capital stands a statue of the Catholic general, Rochambeau, who came from that nation and, with its soldiers and sailors—as a later American Pre- sident said—struck the decisive blow which started this country on the path of independ- ence among the nations of the earth.	cache/_005195332.txt	txt/_005195332.txt