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“I had once taken pleasure…in his nomination. Yesterday, all seemed to come back to me as a cause of grief, and I seemed to stand, with all others, responsible for the shadow that has fallen upon those hearts that were so near to him.”

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Benjamin Harrison, after the death of President Garfield.

Quoted in the Indianapolis Journal, September 21st, 1881.

Harrison had been instrumental in nominating and electing his friend James A. Garfield, and sounded a regretful note once his friend had died.

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