"Speak softly and carry a big stick" letter worth $200,000?

[Bapopik at AOL.COM]

I guess this is too much for Fred Shapiro to bid. From the AP:
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April 4, 2007 -- ARDMORE, Pa. - The original letter in which Theodore
Roosevelt first used the phrase "Speak softly and carry a big stick" is up for
sale, with an asking price of $200,000.
The two-page typed letter was written by Roosevelt on Jan. 26, 1900, and
mailed to Henry Sprague, a member of the Union League Club in New York.
"I have always been fond of the West African proverb: 'Speak softly and carry
 a big stick; you will go far.' "



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